Medicaid Changes Under Trump Undermine Care for Pregnant Women, New Moms
New Medicaid work requirements could put pregnant women at risk of losing health coverage.
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Voters Reject Trump Administration’s Policies, Including Its Health Agenda
Election results put Medicaid cuts, Affordable Care Act subsidies and access to mental health care at the center of the healthcare debate.
Who’s Paying for California’s Crisis Care?
California counties say insurers are failing to cover mobile mental health crisis teams, leaving taxpayers with millions in unpaid bills.
Helping Trick-Or-Treaters With Autism Feel Welcome
This year, make Halloween more inclusive for autistic children with these six tips for welcoming neurodivergent trick-or-treaters.
How AI Is Erasing Our Core Relationships
Researchers warn that AI chatbots may contribute to loneliness and social isolation by replacing human relationships, calling for better oversight and research.
The ‘Free’ Drug Rehab that Stranded Oklahomans in California
California drug rehab recruiters allegedly lured Oklahomans into treatment, with some patients left without adequate care or a way home.
The Trauma Surgeon Who Aims to Heal Gun Violence
Dr. Selwyn Rogers explores the gun violence epidemic as a public health crisis, plus Phoenix's street medicine restrictions and Tennessee's youth prisons.
Parents Rethink How to Raise Boys Who Will Stand Up for Women
Parents can raise boys to respect consent, challenge peer pressure, and stand up against sexual assault and harmful masculinity.
Youth Well-Being Has Plummeted Since Its Height in 2010
Fewer than half of Americans are thriving, with young adults suffering the most.
Star Athletes Open Up About Mental Health at Healthy Minds Festival
Athletes shape how Americans picture strength, which puts them in a unique position to show that male vulnerability belongs in that picture.
Nature Rx: A Prescription That May Save Your Life
A healthcare movement that “prescribes” time outdoors and in community to people struggling with their mental health.
Cornell Assault Prompts Parents to Talk With Their Sons
Sexual assault on campuses nationwide is still a grave problem.
The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE
When Trump cut DEI programs and allowed DOGE to gut the federal workforce, hundreds of thousands of Black women lost their jobs. Many are still reeling.
Exclusive: A Maternal Policy Expert Weighs in on Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
Policy expert Joy Burkhard discusses maternal mental health policy, postpartum psychosis misunderstandings, and new CA mental health parity laws.
$1 Million to Help Heal Minnesota’s Cascade of Trauma
In today's newsletter, NAMI Minnesota has launched a new grant-giving initiative to help agencies doing crucial work to support mental health.
Chicago Launches its First Psychiatric Street Team
Meet Chicago’s first Street Psychiatrist, a student of the street medicine pioneer Jim Withers. Plus, a look at the American Penal Press Contest.
Trump’s Student Loan Changes Cause Anxiety and Panic
Borrowers face rising payments under the Trump administration's student loan changes. Plus: teaching emotional literacy to teen girls, and why the new CDC youth mental health report is facing criticism.
Rumors of Kids Quitting College En Masse Are Exaggerated
This week: what the data says about Gen Z students quitting college, and why postpartum mental illness is more than depression.
Why Is Georgia Blocking Recovery Homes for Substance Abuse?
Georgia towns are using zoning loopholes to shut recovery homes down, even as addiction and mental illness surge statewide.
Why Are Mothers Punished for Parenting?
Those of us who roamed freely as kids can be arrested for letting our kids do the same.
How Football Affects Your Child’s Brain Health
For young football players, what matters is fewer years of contact and fewer hits within those years.
The Lindsey Clancy Murder Trial
Women nationwide watch the Lindsay Clancy trial and see themselves in her story, plus an investigation into hospitals that fail patients with addiction.
Grief and Rehabilitation in a California Prison
This month: a DUI offender's path to rehabilitation, Lindsay Clancy revisited, Illinois prison protests, a fatal cell fire, and Missouri's competency crisis.
Meta Pays $17 Billion Settlement for Lawsuit Over Child Harm
Meta will pay up to $17.1 billion and reshape how its platforms operate after 47 states argued that they are harmful and also addictive to children by design.
Voters Reject Trump Administration’s Policies, Including Its Health Agenda
Election results put Medicaid cuts, Affordable Care Act subsidies and access to mental health care at the center of the healthcare debate.
Who’s Paying for California’s Crisis Care?
California counties say insurers are failing to cover mobile mental health crisis teams, leaving taxpayers with millions in unpaid bills.
Helping Trick-Or-Treaters With Autism Feel Welcome
This year, make Halloween more inclusive for autistic children with these six tips for welcoming neurodivergent trick-or-treaters.
How AI Is Erasing Our Core Relationships
Researchers warn that AI chatbots may contribute to loneliness and social isolation by replacing human relationships, calling for better oversight and research.
The ‘Free’ Drug Rehab that Stranded Oklahomans in California
California drug rehab recruiters allegedly lured Oklahomans into treatment, with some patients left without adequate care or a way home.
The Trauma Surgeon Who Aims to Heal Gun Violence
Dr. Selwyn Rogers explores the gun violence epidemic as a public health crisis, plus Phoenix's street medicine restrictions and Tennessee's youth prisons.
Parents Rethink How to Raise Boys Who Will Stand Up for Women
Parents can raise boys to respect consent, challenge peer pressure, and stand up against sexual assault and harmful masculinity.
Youth Well-Being Has Plummeted Since Its Height in 2010
Fewer than half of Americans are thriving, with young adults suffering the most.
Star Athletes Open Up About Mental Health at Healthy Minds Festival
Athletes shape how Americans picture strength, which puts them in a unique position to show that male vulnerability belongs in that picture.
Nature Rx: A Prescription That May Save Your Life
A healthcare movement that “prescribes” time outdoors and in community to people struggling with their mental health.
Cornell Assault Prompts Parents to Talk With Their Sons
Sexual assault on campuses nationwide is still a grave problem.
The Unseen Toll: Depression, Anxiety Plague Black Women a Year After Being Fired by DOGE
When Trump cut DEI programs and allowed DOGE to gut the federal workforce, hundreds of thousands of Black women lost their jobs. Many are still reeling.
Exclusive: A Maternal Policy Expert Weighs in on Lindsay Clancy Mistrial
Policy expert Joy Burkhard discusses maternal mental health policy, postpartum psychosis misunderstandings, and new CA mental health parity laws.
$1 Million to Help Heal Minnesota’s Cascade of Trauma
In today's newsletter, NAMI Minnesota has launched a new grant-giving initiative to help agencies doing crucial work to support mental health.
Chicago Launches its First Psychiatric Street Team
Meet Chicago’s first Street Psychiatrist, a student of the street medicine pioneer Jim Withers. Plus, a look at the American Penal Press Contest.
Trump’s Student Loan Changes Cause Anxiety and Panic
Borrowers face rising payments under the Trump administration's student loan changes. Plus: teaching emotional literacy to teen girls, and why the new CDC youth mental health report is facing criticism.
Rumors of Kids Quitting College En Masse Are Exaggerated
This week: what the data says about Gen Z students quitting college, and why postpartum mental illness is more than depression.
Why Is Georgia Blocking Recovery Homes for Substance Abuse?
Georgia towns are using zoning loopholes to shut recovery homes down, even as addiction and mental illness surge statewide.
Why Are Mothers Punished for Parenting?
Those of us who roamed freely as kids can be arrested for letting our kids do the same.
How Football Affects Your Child’s Brain Health
For young football players, what matters is fewer years of contact and fewer hits within those years.
The Lindsey Clancy Murder Trial
Women nationwide watch the Lindsay Clancy trial and see themselves in her story, plus an investigation into hospitals that fail patients with addiction.
Grief and Rehabilitation in a California Prison
This month: a DUI offender's path to rehabilitation, Lindsay Clancy revisited, Illinois prison protests, a fatal cell fire, and Missouri's competency crisis.
Meta Pays $17 Billion Settlement for Lawsuit Over Child Harm
Meta will pay up to $17.1 billion and reshape how its platforms operate after 47 states argued that they are harmful and also addictive to children by design.