mental illness

988 has gotten roughly 10 million calls in the last two years. U.S. officials want to to raise awareness about the service

It’s the middle of summer but Harrisburg Middle School is a hive of activity. Between summer school classes and renovations, it’s a little chaotic for…

When José moved his family to the U.S. from Mexico nearly two decades ago, he had hopes of giving his children a better life.But now he worries about the…

Kazito Kalima was 14 at the start of the Rwandan genocide. Over just a few months in 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi people in his country were…

An Illinois Senate bill aims to help children who are at risk of entering state custody because of issues caused by untreated mental illness. The measure…

The Illinois Department of Corrections continues to flounder in its efforts to care for inmates with mental illness, according to a new report authored by…

When Matthew Timion needed to get his son treatment for mental illness, he did not anticipate it would be so hard to get the insurance company to pay for…

When Toni and Jim Hoy adopted their son Daniel as a toddler, they did not plan to give him back to the state of Illinois 10 years later.“Danny was this…

DeVonte Jones began to show signs of schizophrenia as a teenager. His first public episode was nine years ago at a ball game at Wavering Park in Quincy,…

SAN ANTONIO— Yolanda Solar has battled a life-threatening disease for more than three decades.The disease nearly killed her last summer, and Solar, a…