mental health

The latest update from Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Surfside Vice Mayor Tina Paul, South Florida organizations join forces to collect relief funds for survivors and their families and a dive into the history of the county's 40-year building recertification program.

This post will be updated today, Thursday, June 24, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.

Children’s hospitals -- and the young patients they help -- are asking Congress to prioritize their growing mental health needs.

Initially, both telehealth and in-person visits in the individual and family counseling arenas will be available and other services will likely be added before long.

Parents have long fretted about schools’ ability to circumvent them in critical health decisions regarding their children. Now, those loopholes are getting smaller after the legislature approved provisions requiring parents be notified before their child is sent for an involuntary psychiatric exam. It's part of a years-long effort by parents rights groups and mental health advocates to curb the use of the state's Baker Act on children.

WLRN asked middle and high schoolers to share messages to their future selves about what it was like to take classes during COVID-19. We talked to them about some of their responses during a live virtual field trip to the South Florida Fair.

Dr. Howard Pratt, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Community Health of South Florida in Miami, says the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict is a step, but that as a Black doctor, he’s concerned about how much stress and anxiety many of his Black patients continue to feel.

A catastrophe was averted at Piney Point, but what about all of our other estuaries and waterways? Thousands of prisoners in Florida are finally getting their vaccines. Plus, the isolation we’ve struggled with over the past year due to the pandemic could have long-term effects.

The organization Parkland Cares, founded in the wake of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, awarded $100,000 in grant money recently to local mental health service providers.

The pandemic has meant more children having to deal with mortality.

A new course at Florida International University explores the history of psychedelics and a new frontier for how these substances might have a positive effect on mental illness.

Students at historically Black colleges and universities in Florida are finding different ways to cope with illness, grief, family obligations and uncertainty. For the multiethnic Black community, COVID-19 has been an added stressor atop another centuries-long pandemic: racial injustice.