There’s a disconnect between mental health funding and who actually commits mass shootings. The greatest effect may be on suicides.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline system that 988 will augment has faced problems with staffing and connecting calls to responders.

The Department of Education provided ideas for using these funds, including text-based counseling and suicide-prevention training.

With mental health professionals in short supply during the pandemic, some who need help are turning to hotlines and other alternative online resources.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said the department will ramp up legal enforcement: “We need to make sure people are covered.”

The Department of Labor’s parity report finds that mental health care is treated unfairly by insurers.

Admitting when we’re not OK is the first step in helping ourselves, psychotherapist Megan Devine says.

The program’s approach includes an emphasis on medically-assisted treatment, using drugs to help ease withdrawal symptoms and cravings.

Conditions at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake in Wisconsin were so bad that now, a federally appointed monitor oversees the facilities. As the number of kids there has declined, costs have gone up.

One entrepreneur is placing her bets on a paid online listening service for women.