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Collateral Damage: The Emotional Toll of Trump’s Immigration Policies on Asian Children and Families
An investigation into the trauma caused by ICE and its potential long-term harm in Asian youth.
Troubled Teen Industry Rocked by Lawsuits, Sexual Assault Charges
One of the nation’s largest behavioral health hospital chains continues to face legal scrutiny for alleged patient abuse and negligence.
MindSite News Interviews
How the Trauma of Immigration Can Harm the Developing Brain: An Interview with Harvard’s Martin Teicher
Dr. Martin Teicher explains how immigrant trauma and family separation act as toxic stressors, permanently rewiring a child’s brain, reducing IQ, and increasing the risk of lifelong mental health challenges.
Mental Health News
Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way
Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move.
Along the Mexico-U.S. Border, New Barriers to Harm Reduction
Border militarization is making it harder for healthcare workers to reach people who use drugs.
Guest Essay
Brown University Shooting Again Reveals Why Trauma Care Must Begin Before People Seek It
A former Brown student and longtime mental health journalist says that how institutions respond after traumatic events can shape mental health outcomes for years to come.
Investigations
As Philadelphia Weighs New School Closings, Advocates Ask: Does Shuttering a School Boost Neighborhood Violence?
At the center of much of Philadelphia’s gun violence is disinvestment in neighborhoods. That includes the closing of schools.
Policing the Vulnerable: A Series
A collaboration between MindSite News, Invisible Institute, South Side Weekly and the Medill Investigative Lab-Chicago examining the mental health landscape in Chicago.
Forgotten Children: COVID’s 5th anniversary
COVID Stole a Parent from Over 200,000 Children. Indian Country Lost the Most
COVID was not an equal-opportunity destroyer. American Indian and Alaska Native children were orphaned at three times the rate of white children, and Black children at double the rate. Without support, children who lose a parent or caregiver are at risk of developing lasting problems with depression, lower academic achievement, and behavioral issues.
Opioid Orphans: Grandparents Struggle to Raise Children Left Behind
From 2011 to 2021, more than 300,000 children lost a parent to fatal drug overdoses. Despite billions set aside in opioid settlement funds, grandparents who have stepped up to raise those children get very little support.
Mental Health News
With SNAP Benefits Delayed, Fountain House Clubhouses Scramble to Feed Hungry Members
From New York City to Salt Lake City, Fountain House and affiliated clubhouses have created plans to feed members impacted by cutoff of SNAP funds
For People Leaving Jail and Prison in California, Programs to Support Their Reentry Are a Lifeline
People in the reentry program can receive housing, job training and substance use treatment.
Investigations
Shadow Arrests: When a Call for Help Turns Into Involuntary Commitment
Thousands in crisis are being involuntarily hospitalized despite little evidence of effectiveness.
Washington beat
Inside America’s Mental Health Agency: Mass Firings and Work Stoppages Sap Morale, Impede Mission
The agency tasked with leading the fight to ease the country’s mental health and addiction emergencies is going through an existential crisis. About 100 of its 900 workers have been fired and those that remain are frightened and demoralized. Communications with agencies funded by SAMHSA has slowed or halted. “Nobody feels safe,” one employee said.
Nowhere to Turn: Abortion Bans Erode Trust Between Mental Health Providers and Their Clients
In state that have passed laws banning abortions, women who have used medication or traveled to other states to end a pregnancy are often afraid to talk with a therapist out of fear that the therapist might report them.
In Depth
Refugees Struggle in New Land: A View from 40 Years Ago
In 1985, The Tenderloin Times explored the lives of Southeast Asian refugees and U.S. veterans 10 years after the end of the Vietnam War. This story offered a look at the efforts by three very different Southeast Asian refugee communities to rebuild and adjust to their new lives in a new country.
Forgotten Children
Forgotten Children is a four-part series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood grief – and the efforts to address it. Parental death has been rising in the U.S. due to COVID-19, the overdose epidemic and gun violence.
Nowhere to Turn: Abortion Bans Erode Trust Between Mental Health Providers and Their Clients
In state that have passed laws banning abortions, women who have used medication or traveled to other states to end a pregnancy are often afraid to talk with a therapist out of fear that the therapist might report them.
State of Mental Health
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Art and Culture
From “Girl, Interrupted” to “Girl in Pieces”: What I learned from reading three books about teen mental illness
How books on teens with mental illness help destigmatize and educate us.
‘The Factory of Maladies’: A Chilling First-Hand Account of Life in a Psych Ward
“The Factory of Maladies,” a memoir by Deborah Hartung, is a gripping account of being locked up in a San Francisco psychiatric ward.
Music Therapy in Puerto Rico Helps Youth Recover from Hurricane Trauma
Music therapy has helped children in the archipelago recover from natural disasters. But the work needs more support.
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