mental health services

Fairfax County Public Schools are offering a free meeting with a mental health professional to any student or school parent this summer. The program makes free mental wellness consulations available, as many students don’t have access to the counselors they would normally talk to when they need help during the summer.  Amber Ong, a school psychologist within the district,...

Prince William County plans to open a crisis receiving center geared toward mental health crisis response. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

A new generation of Black mental health professionals and leaders in the D.C. area are working to break stigmas around seeking help. News4’s Molette Green reports.

D.C. is reminding residents its mental health hotline is available anytime, day or night. News4’s Mark Segraves explains what services are available.

Psychiatrist Dr. Joshua Weiner talks with News4’s Eun Yang about managing stress and anxiety, when to ask for help and how to handle tough conversations with younger children.

Sheriff’s department officers in one Illinois county are hitting the streets with tablets that can connect people in distress immediately with mental health professionals

Players at the U.S. Open will have access to licensed mental health providers and quiet rooms as part of an initiative announced by the U.S. Tennis Association.

An innovative program to help people with mental health and substance abuse problems is being primed for a major expansion as the COVID-19 pandemic deepens struggles with drug use, depression and anxiety for many Americans.

An international mental health program is helping students at a D.C. charter school feel seen and empowered.

A new mental health program connects students in Southwest D.C. to peers around the world. News4’s Cory Smith reports on the initiative that is helping students feel seen and empowered.

Starting next month in D.C., when someone calls 911 for help with a mental health issue that call could be transferred to the District’s mental health crisis team instead of the police. As News4’s Mark Segraves reports, this change is part of police reform in D.C.

Last summer’s demands for social justice prompted County Executive Angela Alsobrooks to reallocate $20-million from a new police training building to create a mental health facility. The facility will offer drug treatment, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric help and walk-in urgent care behavioral services, all through a lens of racial and cultural sensitivity. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports....

Lawmakers in several states are proposing legislation that would require more training for police in how to interact with someone in a mental crisis following some high-profile deaths

For the first time in the city’s history, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday that the new mental health professionals and crisis workers will be the dispatched through 911, instead of the NYPD, to respond to mental health emergencies in two high-need communities — calling the pilot program a “major innovation.”

High school and middle school students are participating in active shooter drills across Montgomery County, in what MCPS Chief Safety Officer Ed Clarke calls a “lockdown with options.”

The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach any big national settlements but are already tussling with each other over how to divide any money they collect. The reason: Some of them want to avoid what happened 20 years ago, when states agreed to...

After years of crime and violence, more than a dozen young men were given a second chance when they walked across a graduation stage on Friday.

Boastful on the occasion of Memorial Day, President Donald Trump and his Veterans Affairs secretary are claiming full credit for health care improvements that were underway before they took office. Trump said he passed a private-sector health care program, Veterans Choice, after failed attempts by past presidents for the last “45 years.” That’s not true. The Choice program, which allows...

Smoking high-potency marijuana every day could increase the chances of developing psychosis by nearly five times, according to the biggest-ever study to examine the impact of pot on psychotic disorder rates. The research adds to previous studies that have found links between marijuana and mental health problems, but still does not definitively pinpoint marijuana as the cause. Psychotic disorders —...

You can go to Walmart to buy toothpaste and shampoo, order glasses or fulfill a drug prescription. Now, some customers can also get therapy, Today.com reported. A new outpatient mental health clinic has opened inside a Walmart store in Carrollton, Texas, north of Dallas. People can walk in, call or make an appointment online to see a licensed mental health...