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Tulsa County leaders said a new partnership aimed at addressing the mental health needs of youth in custody could change the way Oklahoma responds to children in crisis. Beginning July 1, the Tulsa County Juvenile Detention Center will have guaranteed access to a crisis stabilization bed through a partnership with CREOKS Mental Health Services.
The Syracuse City School District will receive $4 million in federal funds over four years to hire more school psychologists. Rep. John Mannion, D-Geddes, Superintendent Pamela Odom and Chief of Student Support Services Laura Kelley announced that SCSD will receive the school-based mental health services grant in partnership with SUNY Oswego.
UT Southwestern Medical Center unveiled the first state behavioral health hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex recently during a ribbon cutting ceremony. The Texas Behavioral Health Center located in Dallas' Southwestern Medical District on Harry Hines Boulevard will provide services for hundreds of people with serious mental health issues.
A long-stalled mental health center for criminal offenders recently won approval to open from the Miami-Dade County Commission, which opted to put off decisions on how to pay for the facility once one-time revenue sources are exhausted. Championed by Steve Leifman, a retired judge, the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery is now on track to open in 2027 in a renovated state building at 2200 NW Seventh Ave. in Miami.
The Trump administration recently said it was announcing $700 million in "new funding" for mental health and addiction programs, with an emphasis on combating homelessness resulting from severe, untreated mental illness. But behavioral health experts instantly cast doubt on the claim, identifying the $700 million not as new funding but as the long-awaited release of existing grants that Congress had previously authorized and that the federal government already planned to spend.
Damian Zermeño, 15, sensed something was wrong the moment he got home from school. His aunt sat at the dining table, sobbing. His father, who'd walked him to the bus stop that morning and promised to take him to dinner when he got back, wasn't there.
A new study published in JMIR Serious Games suggests that some video games may do more than entertain — they may also help adults cope with loneliness and build emotional resilience.
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Brain and Creativity Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have launched the University of Southern California's first study of psychedelic therapy.
A study published in the medical journal JAMA suggests that the work requirements under Georgia's Pathways to Coverage program may be worsening mental health outcomes. Under Pathways, eligible low-income adults are required to report 80 hours of work every a month to qualify for healthcare.
Nearly one in three adults in Denmark score high on the stress scale, and more than one in 10 feel lonely. This is shown by the large survey The National Health Profile 2025. There is good reason to pay attention to the mental health of the Danish population — and now researchers, municipalities and others working with well-being and mental health promotion have a new tool at their disposal.
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