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The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority (Trust) board of trustees has approved $9.8 million in grants to beneficiary-serving organizations — including five Juneau-based organizations — in the final quarter of the 2026 fiscal year.
A bill to expand the use of involuntary psychiatric treatment in North Carolina, and further study the intersection of the state's mental health and the justice systems, is well on its way to becoming law. While many praised the legislature's attention to these issues, some lawmakers and experts question whether the bill does enough to address systemic problems that have accumulated and festered for decades.
Throughout his 2023 mayoral campaign, Brandon Johnson championed a progressive vision of sending teams of mental health clinicians instead of police officers to help people suffering from psychiatric emergencies.
When Taletha Washburn and the staff at Plumas Charter School first heard that California wanted to help schools treat more kids struggling with mental health, it felt like a well-timed remedy for a rural community where families struggle to find care.
Hospital executives in California say new staffing standards intended to make psychiatric hospitals safer for patients are having the opposite effect: reducing access to treatment for people with the most serious cases of mental illness. Emergency regulations adopted by the California Department of Public Health require 35 psychiatric hospitals throughout the state to assign one nurse for every six adult patients, and one for every five youth patients, starting June 1.
Anyone who comes through the door of a mental health crisis center is supposed to get care — even if they don't have insurance. It's a key selling point for the new type of center, which Washington introduced in 2023. Cities and counties have clamored to open the centers and take pressure off emergency rooms or jails.
The state could be allowed to hire fewer qualified corrections officers to address mental health needs in Alabama prisons under a federal court ruling last week, according to criminal justice reform advocates.
New Jersey lawmakers approved a plan to strengthen school-based mental health services, connect more districts with behavioral health providers in their communities and, eventually, link them all with a centralized team of psychiatrists.
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests even modest, short-term changes in weather can have a measurable impact on NHS mental health service demand across England.
Lower thresholds for seeking medical help and/or changes in diagnostic practice, rather than a true increase in worsening psychological ill health, may help explain the rise in young people's primary care service use for mental health issues, suggest the findings of a large, long-term Norwegian study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
Mental health concerns among early-career researchers (ECRs) have gained attention, but prevalence and severity estimates remain fragmented. Here we conducted a preregistered systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis (PROSPERO: CRD42024596813) to quantify psychological distress among ECRs. Scopus, Web of Science, ERIC and PubMed were searched through Oct. 28, 2025, yielding 148 studies and four primary databases (k = 228; N = 138,446).
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