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Can architecture help studentsâ mental health? This Fort Worth designer says yes
From the Fort Worth Report
Students should hear birds chirping in their schools.
Not the literal sound. But school designer Kerri Brady wants campuses to evoke that natural sense of peace and safety, so students can be present, better regulate their emotions and learn.
Here are the ways Fort Worth schools provide mental health care to students
From the Fort Worth Report
Carly Kandel ensures Briscoe Elementary is a good place for her students.
Nearly all of the Fort Worth ISD schoolâs students come from low-income homes, and their basic needs arenât always being met, said Kandel, a program manager for Communities In Schools of Greater Tarrant County.
Fort Worth charter school focuses on trauma-informed curriculum. What does that mean?
From the Fort Worth Report
Superintendent Stephanie Loveâs eyes were glued on her students eating in the cafeteria.
The sixth graders chatted with cafeteria staff while grabbing their lunches. Those who already had food talked or played games with each other on their laptops. Some asked for personal space.
From long wait lists to high costs, finding a therapist in Colorado is harder than it should be
From KUNC
In communities across Northern Colorado, people are struggling with their mental health while also struggling to get the care they need.
Law Could Increase Demand for Often-Elusive Addiction Treatment
From the Voice of San Diego
A state law set to take effect in January aims to make it easier to force Californians with severe substance use disorders into treatment that is now often not immediately available to San Diegans who want it.
Road to Recovery
From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Courtney Altaha and James Cody Jr. piled their belongings into a small white trailer baking under the Phoenix sun. Their boxesâfilled with clothes, books, paperwork, a childâs booster seatâdwarfed the single duffle bag theyâd carried when they left the Fort Apache Indian Reservation two years earlier. They came to the city in search of treatment for addictions that had robbed them of their health, house and custody of their five children.
One answer to the youth mental health crisis? Asking Colorado students how theyâre feeling
From KUNC
Rates of anxiety and depression among young people are the highest they’ve been since 2013, when Colorado first began collecting this data. Driven by the urgent state of youth mental health, an effort is underway in Colorado to identify kids who need behavioral health help before they are in crisis.
Getting Drug Treatment Beds Is So Hard for Poor Itâs Like Winning the Lottery
From the Voice of San Diego
On a recent day earlier this month, Jerry Shireyâs team at San Diego Freedom Ranch had a list of more than 30 people seeking a detox bed to start the agonizing process of withdrawing from drugs or alcohol. Freedom Ranch had one bed left to offer.
Patients, advocates describe âpure chaosâ in state response to AHCCCS fraud
From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR)
On May 16, as cameras flashed and tribal leaders looked on, Arizonaâs governor and attorney general announced a statewide crackdown on behavioral health providers suspected of defrauding the stateâs Medicaid program out of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.