mental health

Since the founding of The Campfire Fund of Florida, over $30,000 have been raised in support of men’s mental health resources throughout the Pensacola area.

Making the transition from career professional to full-time mother can be challenging. Women in the Black community say finding support for their decision to stay at home with children can be particularly hard.

Organizers say the summit is the first step in a long road to recovering from the pandemic's effects on mental wellness. It follows a recent town hall focused on mental health and vaccine hesitancy.

To help educators address symptoms of trauma in classrooms, the Jacksonville Public Education Fund is looking to build out a program with the nonprofit Hope Street.

More than 46,000 U.S. children have lost a parent to COVID. Families say finding even basic grief counseling has been difficult and there’s no coordinated effort to help these children access services or benefits.

The practice of housing children who are in psychiatric crisis in local ERs — often for days, while they await appropriate in-patient treatment — has become even more prevalent during the pandemic.

An analysis of the Medicaid and CHIP programs shows that during the first eight months of the pandemic, there was a 34% dip in services obtained by people under age 19 and a 22% decrease by adults.

As the number of people seeking therapy soars during the pandemic, CVS has begun testing a model to offer counseling services at stores in the greater Tampa Bay region, Houston and Philadelphia.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is the latest organization to call out the Baker Act’s use on children. The organization's Bacardi Jackson discusses the findings.

House and Senate insurance panels this week approved bills that would require health insurers to provide a link to a website so customers can submit complaints about their ability to obtain care.