DODGE CITY — A leader of a governor’s panel on rural and frontier mental health says there is still work needed to improve access to services in rural Kansas. Audra Goldsmith gave a presentation during a legislative luncheon Tuesday in Dodge City that was organized to connect directly with mental health care professionals, service providers,…

Earlier this summer, the Post asked our readers what issues you wanted to hear candidates running for Blue Valley Board of Education to address leading up to the Nov. 7 election. Based on that feedback, we developed a five-item questionnaire centering the issues most important to Blue Valley district patrons. Each day this week, we’ll…

As concerns surrounding mental health grow across the U.S., two Case Western Reserve University departments are teaming up to ensure members of the campus community get the support they need in times of crisis. The Outreach, Assessments, Resources and Response (OARR) co-responder team is a pilot program between the Division of Public Safety and University…

Editor’s note: The following story was written by Philip Drown of Alexandria for the Echo Press. ALEXANDRIA — John Moe still remembers vividly his first panic attack. He was a seventh-grader at Sacajawea Junior High School in a southern suburb of Seattle when he “got hit with something that felt like a tidal wave hitting…

Robert Washington-Vaughns looked like he had it all. He had a good job as a lab scientist, a nice apartment, and a beautiful girlfriend, yet he was deeply unhappy. “I felt like I just wanted to end it all,” he tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “I didn’t think I had anybody I could reach…

Thank you for your support of local journalism at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. I’m very pleased to invite you to a special edition of “Inside the Journal Sentinel” featuring Meg Kissinger, the author of “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.” Kissinger is a proud Journal…

SEATTLE — ChrisTiana ObeySumner says their experience living on the streets has positioned them to best tackle the homelessness crisis as a City Council member. ObeySumner explained their position in a half hour conversation with KOMO News Senior Reporter Chris Daniels at a Greenwood bar.. They are running for the District 5 seat, and looking…

By Maria McCann BBC News NI Lawyers for a doctor at the centre of Northern Ireland’s biggest patient recall have withdrawn from his new fitness to practise hearing. Legal representatives for Michael Watt said they are “concerned about his serious mental health condition”. They told the Medical Practice Tribunal Service that the continuation of the…

If you do not already focus enough on your mental health, or mental health in general, you should start now. Rather than stigmatizing mental health, people should prioritize it. As someone who is majoring in psychology and wants to become a therapist or psychologist in the future — which we definitely need more of —…