A new federal directive reshapes how mental health and homelessness are addressed nationwide, sparking legal and ethical concerns.

Calls to a mental health support hotline double between 2023 and 2024 and gets 6,000 calls a month. ... Same-day mental health help pledge as demand rises. Story by Ben Price - BBC News • 6d.

Adams’ mental-health efforts are hopeless without involuntary-commitment changes By . Post Editorial Board. Published Jan. 10, 2025, 6:51 p.m. ET.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — On Tuesday, the mother of a slain mental health worker faced the courtroom and did something few victims will do -- she advocated for her daughter's killer. "It took a ...

Mental health groups had also been pushing, as an alternative to Hochul’s proposal, forcing the state to conduct critical incident reviews after mentally ill people commit particularly egregious ...

Politics; Father, attacked by son in mental health crisis, says changes to Oregon’s civil commitment laws are badly needed. Updated: ; Apr. 02, 2025, 8:11 p.m ...

NY is poised to involuntarily commit people "due to an inability or refusal, as a result of their mental illness, to provide for their own essential needs" such as food, clothing or shelter.

Involuntary mental health commitment gets at one of society’s most delicate questions. Here's what patients, families and caregivers should know.

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon lawmakers are considering changes to the state’s civil commitment laws — making forced mental health treatment a more accessible option for people in crisis.

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday discussed the upcoming dissolution of the East Central Region’s mental health services, a result of state legislation that will eliminate the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge says Oregon created a crisis by underinvesting in mental health. Now, the state is forced to make changes or pay millions of dollars in court-ordered fines, and ...