A measure to improve and expand services for youth with severe behavioral and emotional challenges received approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday as part of a ...

More than half of those incarcerated suffer from mental health illness. That's the driving force for Metro Community ...

Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman has been rallying lawmakers to pass sweeping juvenile justice reform since ...

When law enforcement arrest people, they sometimes have severe mental health problems. It would be best to send them to ...

Blount Co. Juvenile Court Judge Kenlyn Foster ordered the case of Maddex Forsythe, charged with murder in the death of ...

Senate Bill 111 would provide mental health care for youths held by state juvenile justice, health and family services.

Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar (D-Woodhaven) on Monday unveiled a new bill, the Empire State of Mind Act, her plan to end the state’s mental health crisis using “person-centered” methods.Bill A2719 wo ...

Student arrests in threats to schools in the first three months of the academic year doubled this year, and consequences ...

Sophie Dado had a message for everyone in the room at Elgin Community College. She had written down a quote that stuck with ...

While successful partnerships for providing crisis response resources were established in some parts of the state, the ...

A new report found foster children continue to spend nights in office buildings as Kentucky struggles finding appropriate ...