SPENCER, Iowa — This town's hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility's leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as dozens ...

Our mental health system is running on fumes. For too long, it has been underfunded and shaped by politics rather than evidence. As chairs of the Senate and Assembly Committees on Mental Health, we ...

Exclusive: After years languishing on indefinite jail terms, hundreds of prisoners have experienced a deterioration in their ...

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Mental health conditions affect millions of people worldwide, but harmful stereotypes—like the idea that people with mental illness are dangerous or weak—still shape how these conditions are ...

Lawmakers broke ground this afternoon on the South Central Kansas psychiatric hospital. Left to right, Sedgwick County Commissioner Ryan Baty, KDADS secretary Laura Howard, Gov. Laura Kelly and Lange ...