Mental Health

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board in North Carolina is joining the list of nearly 200 school districts that have sued the owners of major social media platforms for contributing to the youth "mental health crisis."

Several health departments in metro Omaha, Neb., and over 3,500 community members collaborated to create a community health improvement plan that focuses on mental health, according to an Aug. 25 report from ABC affiliate WOWT.

A mental health subcommittee of the Brown County Human Services Committee in Wisconsin was given until April 2024 to outline specific strategies it will implement as the county's newly re-formed mental health task force, according to an Aug. 25 report…

Once Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center opens its new mental health facility in October, it will become the largest inpatient mental health provider among all U.S. children's hospitals, according to an Aug. 25 report from The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Embark Behavioral Health, a mental health treatment network for young people, has showcased positive patient outcomes in treatment of depression, anxiety, stress and suicidal thoughts in their first-ever clinical outcomes report, released Aug. 24. 

Twenty-two counties across Washington and the state association of counties filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services for "failure to provide adequate mental health services," according to an Aug. 23 report from The Seattle…

Seventy-four percent of parents have missed work to address their children's mental health or academic performance, according to the results from the survey "Mental Health in the Classroom: The Impact on Kids, Teachers and Working Parents."

The amount Americans with employer-provided health insurance have spent on mental health services rose 53 percent from March 2020 to August 2022, and that number is continuing to grow.

The governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, signed a new law enabling hospitals to apply for a court order to hold patients experiencing mental health crises for six days, according to an Aug. 22 report from northjersey.com.

Every county in Nevada has been federally designated as experiencing a mental health provider shortage, as there is one provider for every 460 residents, according to an Aug. 21 report from Nevada Current.