Mental Health

Learning loss, mental health crises, escalating economic inequity … school district leaders recognize that these challenges students and families are facing, particularly after the pandemic, require strategies and enhanced coordination…

The Education Department has released updated guidance on the spending of $13.2 billion in K-12 relief funding included as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act…

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of experts in primary care and prevention, issued a final recommendation on Oct. 11, 2022, published in the journal JAMA, stating…

The United States leads the world in its use of solitary confinement, locking away in isolation more of its population than any other country. Every day, up to 48,000 inmates…

Since the start of the pandemic, we at the Center on Reinventing Public Education have had our eyes locked on the experiences of and outcomes for students with disabilities. As…

For years some cities have had social workers or mental-health professionals respond to 911 calls from or about a despondent or agitated person. In most smaller communities that hasn’t been…

In the past 2+ years, nonprofits have weathered the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic consequences on their organizations’ culture, operations, and funding. Even as we return to…

More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are diagnosed with dementia during their lifetime and, of those diagnosed who receive intensive end-of-life care, most are from racial and ethnic minority groups,…

In my mental health work with college students, I’ve seen the importance of focusing therapy on things that are real, present, and specific. Many of my patients, especially young Black…

Zainab Okolo is a strategy officer and Jamie Merisotis is president and CEO at Lumina Foundation.  Okolo is a licensed family therapist who used her research and work in mental health…

After the upheaval of the past few years, mental health is increasingly seen as an organizational imperative. Yet, engaging around sometimes complex mental health topics hasn’t traditionally been on everyone’s…

Ensuring that staff members have the necessary tools and training to handle any challenge thrown at them is just one aspect of being a nonprofit leader. What’s also key to…