Mental Health

The Assembly Education Comm. cleared bipartisan legislation that would require each school district to develop a “behavioral threat assessment team.”

A program that began in Cumberland Co., pairing a plainclothes state trooper with a certified mental health screener, will expand to Union Co.

The “Ready. Set. School” campaign will have free days at the children’s museum for health awareness games and COVID shots.

Rebecca Soffer, co-founder of the Modern Loss website and community, shares tools, exercises, thoughts and practical advice for grieving in "The Modern Loss Handbook."

Patient memoirs of 19th-century asylums tell the good, the bad, and the ugly from the early days of institutional mental health treatment.

Members of the DA’s office CARES team asked for some compassion for the people working to help others at their worst moments in life.

In many schools, the Buffalo shooting and others before it have prompted staff discussions on how they might respond to students' threats of violence.

The canines will be there to comfort emergency responders, families and friends of the victims, as well as the community.

After crucial federal funding was finally secured, Delco officials plan to dispatch mental health experts alongside police officers during mental health calls.

A Yardley couple is suing Bucks County and 10 county jail employees over what they allege were civil rights violations against their daughter, 29-year-old Kim Stringer.

The nonprofit provides grief counseling through peer and crisis support for children and teens grades K-12 who have experienced the death of someone significant in their lives

In light of the growing kids' mental health crisis, the group says it's crucial to identify kids who are struggling.

Trauma and stress wreak havoc on the human body after prolonged exposure. Over time, sleep, attention, memory, mood, physical appearance and so much else are impacted.

Kids started remote learning over two years ago, and new CDC reports say their mental health has sharply declined, with many citing physical and emotional abuse at home.

The initiative teams Bloom Planning and Delaware County in an effort to revamp mental and behavioral health services for school children.