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JUNEAU, Alaska —The state department of education has received $9.1 million in federal grant funds to help address mental health issues in school-age children. The grant is set to run for five years, with $1.8 million to be distributed annually....

If Alicia Hafford had known someone who could have helped her before she became homeless last year, she likely never would have ended up living on the streets for six months, wondering where her next meal and shelter from winter’s...

Eastcentral Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center recently received a $5,000 grant from the Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania to train individuals who work with adolescents to better understand and recognize mental health and crisis situations. Eastcentral...

Today, U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) applauded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ announcement that, as part of its Mental Health & Substance Abuse Service Grant Program, it will be awarding the Elkton-Pigeon-Bay Port School District (known as...

Suicide does not happen in a vacuum — it happens in families. Family members must play a role in suicide prevention. To do this, they need to know how suicidality arises and how they can help. They need to know...

An estimated quarter of the nation’s population have struggled with a mental health problem at some point in their lives. Link to Source

It might come as a surprise just how common mental health problems — such as depression, anxiety, impulse control and misuse of alcohol and other drugs — are in the United States. In fact, more than one in four American...

El ejecutivo del Condado Robert Astorino y el Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health anunciaron que el Condado patrocinará varios programas en la observancia de “September as National Suicide Awareness Month” (Mes Nacional de Concientización sobre el Suicidio). “Es importante hablar...

  The map above shows a state-by-state breakdown of the total number of individuals trained in Mental Health First Aid and instructors (in parentheses).

Two Ellicott City residents who Howard County police believe were suffering from mental health issues were killed last week in separate police-involved shootings – incidents that the county’s top elected official says reinforces the need for more mental health initiatives. Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/ellicott-city/ph-ho-cf-police-mental-health-0828-20140827,0,685553.story#ixzz3CvXEdfkz

Out of the 8,000 full- and part-time law enforcement officers in Kansas, only one in four have been trained to handle crisis calls involving the mentally ill. Records show that 80 percent of the nearly 1,800 trained officers work in...

Nurses and those who are trained in CPR and First Aid are prepared to respond to a heart attack and other physical crises, but most of them are not prepared to respond to a mental health crisis. Link to source