Raleigh NC Feb 17 2023 North Carolina State University campus and community are mourning another student’s death. The apparent death by suicide happened Saturday on campus. University police confirm the undergraduate student was found dead in Sullivan Hall. The student’s death is the eighth since the start of the school year happening just days after a […]
San Diego CA Feb 12 2023 A security guard who was one of two people stabbed in a series of assaults in Downtown San Diego says he still has nightmares about the attack. Fredrick Aryee, 72, said he noticed the man come through the loading dock area of the Emerald Plaza building he was guarding Jan. […]
BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C July 10th, 2022 An explosion at a Black Mountain motel in late May that left one person dead has been ruled a suicide, Black Mountain Police Chief said Thursday, July 7. The explosion on May 30 at Apple Blossom Motel was found to be a self-induced gas explosion that set a motel room […]
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, N.J. Dec 6 2021— The state Attorney General’s office announced a pilot program Tuesday that will pair state troopers with a mental health professional when responding to certain crises — a tactic recently adapted by some law enforcement agencies across the country to better respond to mental health emergencies. Acting Attorney Andrew […]
The United Kingdom August 4 2021 Throughout the pandemic, the topic of mental health has been widely discussed, as millions of people were stripped of their freedom and placed in nationwide lockdowns to protect their health and safety. According to a recent study, one in five UK adults has experienced depressive symptoms over the last year. This […]
PORTLAND OR May 11 2021 — Portland Commissioner Dan Ryan said Thursday he wants to slowly expand the city’s experimental new program to dispatch a non-police response to people experiencing homelessness or a mental health crisis. That position, which Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Mingus Mapps also support, effectively thwarts Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty’s attempt to […]
ANN ARBOR, MI January 6 2020– Working with school districts to help students manage symptoms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress is precisely what Elizabeth Koschmann had in mind when she shifted away from private practice. Koschmann, a psychiatrist, and her team in a University of Michigan program called TRAILS, or Transforming Research into Action […]
Portland OR December 9 2019 On a brisk, 40-degree afternoon two days before Thanksgiving, Portland police responded to a call from the city’s psychiatric hospital and found a man sitting on the ground of the ambulance bay, handcuffed and shivering in just a T-shirt and shorts. A security guard told two officers that the man […]
COLUMBIA, SC July 20 2019 A state Department of Mental Health patient suffocated to death earlier this year at the bottom of a dogpile of agency employees who failed to follow the department’s training on physically restraining patients. At least three of the employees involved in the death of 35-year-old William Avant had not been […]
OMAHA, Neb. May 14 2019 A pilot program that stationed a mental health therapist in an Omaha police precinct will be expanded to every precinct, officials said. The primary goal: Decrease the instances of officers taking into custody people struggling with mental health issues. Officials also hope to connect people to the services they require and […]