AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Deinstitutionalization reduced long-term commitments and raised public safety gaps. Courts default to release; short evaluations ...

Deinstitutionalization reduced long-term commitments and raised public safety gaps. Courts default to release; short evaluations return many with psychosis to streets. Law changes and funding ...

Last week, I had the opportunity to appear live on MSNBC to discuss President Trump's statements regarding mental illness and gun violence, as well as his remarks about reopening long-term facilities ...

William Skipworth’s three-part investigation that appeared in The Eagle-Tribune over the last three weekends in November has laid bare the ongoing traumas experienced by people with intellectual and ...

One of the charming, if bizarre, discoveries I made living in New England was its constellation of splendid, thoroughly abandoned mental institutions. They occupied commanding heights in bucolic rural ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul deserves kudos for putting the brakes on New York’s decades-long experiment with deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill: She is adding beds to the state’s psychiatric hospitals.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has acted to stabilize New York's psych bed supply, adding more than 300 beds to the total, writes columnist Stephen Eide. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post Eight decades ago, the ...

Greg Daugherty has worked 25+ years as an editor and writer for major publications and websites. He is also the author of two books. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert. She worked ...

Only a few months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, the United States looks dramatically and perhaps irreversibly different at home and on the world stage. Trump’s rampage through the ...

Street homelessness has been a common and tragic sight in New York for decades. After years of studies, news articles, and political promises, our local, state and federal governments have failed to ...

ZAGREB, February 5, 2025 – A path is paved for over 900 children, youth, and persons with disabilities to transition from institutional care to community-based living with support. In an important ...