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Changes in state law should help expand mental health services, but it will take years to get everyone on board.
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The state-funded Texas Law Enforcement Peer Network was created in 2021 by the state legislature.
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The larger facilities in central and southern Kansas are stretched thin. Hospital staff say rural facilities lack resources to help.
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The COVID-19 pandemic made a national mental health crisis among children worse. Stressors like isolation and grief led to more diagnoses of anxiety and depression. Those are just some mental health challenges kids are dealing with as they return to school this month.
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Lawmakers tried in 2009 to require that the state report all court-ordered mental health hospitalizations to a federal gun background check system. Juveniles have been left out.
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Millions are poured into mental health services to support 988. Some haven’t seen this much investment in a while.
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This kind of care isn’t typical counseling in which a client comes to an office and sits on the sofa for an hour. Instead one might scream in a car, punch a pillow or be comforted with a stuffed animal.
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Uvalde offers mental health resources for the victims and considers rebuilding the school where the shooting took place as the community tends to its invisible wounds.
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Preserving mental health through farming challenges is a real concern; one study shows farmers die by suicide at a higher rate than other professions.
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For many Texans, last week’s ice storm brought back difficult memories of 2021's devastating freeze and blackout.