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  • How mental health care in schools became the norm in Minnesota

    September 17, 2025 |

    MinnPost |

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    Response Location: United States, Hennepin County, Minnesota

    In the early 2000s, Minnesota implemented a systematic approach to address inadequate mental health access for students by contracting with outside agencies to place licensed mental health providers directly in public schools. The state expanded funding from $4.7 million in 2008 to over $20 million today, growing from therapists in just five schools to now serving 82% of the state's public school districts.

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  • The silent surge: How an innovative program at Cleveland Clinic is reaching kids in mental health emergencies — before it's too late

    September 12, 2025 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The Cleveland Clinic’s pediatric emergency room uses iPads loaded with peer-to-peer educational mental health videos from youth who have gone through the emergency room visit and inpatient admission process to help support other young people as they sit in the waiting room. The videos help reduce fear and anxiety, and research shows that peer support for people in crisis can also reduce re-hospitalization rates and promote recovery.

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  • Minecraft Therapy Opens Powerful World for Children and Teens

    September 10, 2025 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Mental health therapists in Colorado and the UK independently developed Minecraft-based therapy sessions during the pandemic when traditional play therapy moved online. Therapists create secure virtual worlds where children and teens can engage in therapeutic activities through gameplay. Those who participate are more animated and engaged, and typically never miss a Minecraft session, unlike traditional therapy.

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  • Stop me, Minnesota shooter wrote. Missed clues sidelined state's red flag law.

    September 05, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    A Minnesota law allows both citizens and members of law enforcement to petition for someone’s guns to be taken if they’re showing signs that they may be a threat to themselves or others, otherwise known as a red flag law. But though the shooter in a 2025 attack made social media posts that could have triggered the law, no one reported these concerns, and most of the state’s 87 counties have yet to use the law at all.

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  • 'Survivors deserve better': State support needed to expand Maine's rape kit tracking pilot

    August 22, 2025 |

    WGME-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Maine's rape kit tracking pilot program, designed to give sexual assault survivors more control in their investigations, works like package tracking. Victims receive a postcard with a kit number after evidence collection and can check the status of their kit online.

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  • How culture saves Sacramento's Native American youth from suicide

    August 12, 2025 |

    Sacramento Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Shingle Springs’ Health and Wellness Center provide culturally relevant mental health care to tribal citizens and Native people, making care more accessible, comfortable and effective for those who need it. The Center has about 40,000 visits a year and 8,000 consistent patients.

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  • King County bet big on remaking its mental health system. Is it working?

    July 27, 2025 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, King County, Washington

    King County, Washington, is building an alternative mental health care system to avoid escalating unnecessary 911 calls and including law enforcement when it’s not necessarily needed. The County created a mental health-focused response team in collaboration with the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline to divert calls that don’t pose a safety risk and help de-escalate situations. The communications center that fields most of the calls says they get about 20 transfers to the 988 line each month.

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  • Music and Mental Health

    July 25, 2025 |

    Little News Ears |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Nuci’s Space aims to prevent suicide by providing a safe space for people of all ages, particularly youth, to connect and play music. They also offer affordable practice spaces and mental and physical health care services for participants, including affordable counseling.

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  • Youth mental health? There's an app — many apps — for that. But are they effective?

    June 16, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Some youth are using mental health apps to supplement therapy or help them manage their emotions, making mental health care more accessible. While there are limitations regarding the apps’ regulations and validity, some research has found that mental health apps have moderately reduced anxiety, depression and suicide risk among the youth who use them.

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  • One Community Took a Radical Approach to Fighting Addiction. It's Working.

    June 15, 2025 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

    Chesterfield County, Virginia implemented a multi-faceted response to the opioid crisis, including a jail-based recovery program, Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP), that brings people in recovery to the local jail to talk about addiction and treatment resources. Combined with other efforts, overdose deaths have dropped by half in a single year, and around 4,000 people have participated in HARP.

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