Topic: Mental Health

Pennsylvania has among the fewest housing options for people with intellectual disabilities. That, a mother, scholar and advocate notes, causes them harm — and wastes all of our money

MSNBC host and Citizen Board Member Ali Velshi breaks down the policy of hospitalizing mentally ill persons against their will — and explains why we still wrestle with it today

An Oklahoma program helps save police resources and provide better care for residents in distress. Could Philly do the same to combat our mental health care crisis?

What to know about the Democratic U.S. Senator from PA, the state's former lieutenant governor

Penn Medicine’s Shreya Kangovi has created a community health model that has worked with 16,000 Philadelphians and has been replicated in 18 states. The key? Listening

Yesterday’s shooting outside a Roxborough football game is another sign that Philadelphia is failing to staunch its rampant gun violence — despite evidence about what works. Here are some ideas.

Twelve U.S. states allow school kids to take excused days off for emotional well-being. PA should too

A long-time college president advises students and families to give careful attention in this post-Roe era to health care — especially reproductive and mental health care — on campus

The president of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha challenges local partners to join their efforts to address escalating depression and anxiety in Philly’s marginalized neighborhoods

Founded by women, Philly-based Black Men Heal is helping to address the emotional pain of African American men around the country