mental health

Even on her worst days, Tracy Young goes to her appointments at the San Fernando Mental Health Center. The counseling and medication, she says, keep her…

More veterans could soon be able to access an alternative court system. Prisons are often called Florida’s largest mental health system – as many as…

Helping young human trafficking victims and making sure juveniles get the help they need are among the legislative goals of two state agencies that dea...

Southwest Florida’s largest psychiatric hospital is being sued over a patient who committed suicide in 2014, after an employee failed to check on him, the…

Florida could soon be the first state to require a mental-health expert to be present during police interviews of developmentally disabled suspects or...

Florida is spending more than $50 million a year getting defendants charged with nonviolent crimes declared competent for trial and not providing these…

Florida legislators have cut $100 million from the state’s mental health budget since 2009—and now an investigative series, “Insane. Invisible. In…

After an ambitious effort to revamp Florida's mental-health treatment system died at the end of the last legislative session, state officials are readying…

A House panel on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill aimed at keeping Floridians with mental illnesses out of the criminal-justice system. The House...

A Florida International University dean will lead a study on the effects of lead exposure on children's mental health thanks to a nearly $3 million…