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After brother’s suicide, Blackfeet sisters are creating a horse-based alternative to talk therapy
Montana Free Press
BLACKFEET RESERVATION — The air was getting colder, winds were picking up, the barn windows needed sealing, and Lynn Mad Plume was at a breaking point.
Her brother Wyatt had taken his own life less than two years before at age 29.
Many Georgians still struggling to access care despite 2022 Mental Health Parity Act
WABE
Kyle Behm was a junior in college when a mental health crisis landed him in the hospital.
For People With Mental Illness, the Path to Disability Benefits Can Be Long and Difficult
Public Health Watch
Every day for a solid year, Krystal Nice would check the Social Security Administration website at 5:15 a.m. for updates. She had applied for disability benefits in April 2024, but kept waiting for a decision. With two children and little income or savings, the monthly $1,537 disability check could help her make ends meet, including paying the rent.
Oklahoma pulls back curtain on opioid settlement money, but victims’ families still have questions
KOSU
From the panhandle to its eastern border, the opioid crisis has reached every corner of Oklahoma. Visit any of the state’s 77 counties, any school district, tribe or community, and you will meet people who have lost a loved one or seen them struggle.
Shadow Arrests: Chicago Police Make Growing Use of Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization
Invisible Institute, South Side Weekly, and Mindsite News
On a gloomy Sunday afternoon in Chicago, Sgt. Andrew Dakuras hopped out of his patrol car in front of a downtown highrise and strolled into the elevator, finishing a text as the doors closed. He rode up to the 31st floor, exited and stopped at the third door on the left. He knocked: tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.
Community Paramedics Bring Mental Health Support to Rural Texas, but Funding Is a Challenge
From Public Health Watch and Texas Community Health News
About a year after Blanco County launched its community health paramedicine program in 2022, paramedic Wesley Patton was referred to a patient in the local jail. The man had been arrested on terroristic threat charges tied to his substance use.
Across W.Va., Localities Look For New Ways To Help People In Crisis
From Inside Appalachia and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
In Huntington, West Virginia, Cabell County’s quick response team, or QRT, meets in the upper floor of an Emergency Medical Services building five days a week. Huntington is a small city of 45,000 people on the western edge of West Virginia.
SF Has a Chance to Reinvent Its Mental Health Care System
From SFPublicPress
When Chuan Teng looks at San Francisco’s approach to behavioral health care, she sees a fundamental flaw.
Montana’s youth need help. Here’s how educators are confronting a mental health crisis.
From Missoulian/Independent Record
Conner Reisinger realized he was different from his classmates in the fifth grade. He was always around other kids, but felt like an outcast and couldn’t put his finger on why.