A mental health services and addiction-treatment center planned for the city’s new Community Justice Campus will open years ahead of the new jail and courthouse facilities, Mayor Joe Hogsett announced Wednesday.
e have known for decades about the role chronic and acute mental illnesses play in mass killings. Still, we have done little to change the way we consider mental health risks and their connection to mass murders.
Jennifer McCormick, the state superintendent of public instruction and a Republican, said financial backing for mental health services didn't receive the attention it warranted.
Indiana’s suicide rate—at more than 16%—is higher than the national average and has increased steadily over the last few years.
Most employers struggle with how to handle mental health problems in the workplace. Many simply avoid addressing the issue, considering it one of those personal matters in which they shouldn’t get involved. But it’s a business issue that impacts productivity, morale and sometimes even safety.
The five-year grant for the Indiana Department of Education was awarded through a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration program.
The overwhelming majority of first-time entrepreneurs regularly deal with stress, anxiety, depression, self-doubt, power dynamics and pervasive negative thoughts.
The report will be paid for in part with a $7,000 grant from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation and put together in partnership with the Mayo Clinic and Community Solutions Inc.
For the first time since its founding in 1996, the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana is supporting an initiative that’s not exclusive to females.
Mayor Joe Hogsett is drafting plans for a new jail that would combine Marion County’s three existing lockups under one roof, creating room for 2,600 to 3,000 inmates.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately one in five U.S. adults—43.8 million people—experience mental illness in a given year.
Centerstone, which provides mental health services across southern Indiana, received $1.6 million to integrate primary care and mental health in Bloomington and surrounding Monroe County.
Modern technology offers a way to deliver much-needed mental health care to rural sections of Indiana where little or none is available, experts told a legislative study committee Thursday.
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Mental Health America of Greater Indianapolis provides education, advocacy and service through programs designed to promote health.
The state budget bill moving through the Indiana General Assembly would save about $7 million each year by creating a list of preferred mental health drugs and trying to win larger rebates from manufacturers.
Dr. Alexander B. Niculescu, a psychiatrist at the IU School of Medicine, has won a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to hunt for the presence of certain proteins in the blood that would indicate that a patient suffers from a mood disorder, which afflicts one in five Americans.
Burd, who is president of Burd Ford, a mother of four, and a fixture on television commercials for the dealership, has become
an advocate for mental health following her husband’s suicide.
The Madison Center in South Bend has notified state officials that 100 employees at the mental health facility will lose their jobs.
An elegant Old Northside mansion known as the Yellow Rose Inn has a new owner with plans to discontinue a bed-and-breakfast
operation.
