Mental Health

United Way Broward’s Coalition on Behavioral Health & Drug Prevention and the Broward Suicide Prevention Coalition will host the inaugural Zero Suicide Broward County Town Hall on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Hazelle P. Rogers Multipurpose Community Center in Lauderdale Lakes.

Access was a bigger concern for mothers with employer coverage than those with Medicaid or federal children’s health insurance.

Florida is leaving mentally ill defendants to languish in county jails for months after judges order their transfer to psychiatric hospitals, often locking them in cramped solitary cells, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalition of civil and disability-rights groups. Sometimes, those defendants died in harsh conditions before ever making it to a hospital.

If you've ever caused a rift in your family over a game of Monopoly, you might find it interesting that board games found their way into mental health care.

Teaching a new generation and volunteering to help others is a way of life for some retired New York City firefighters who lost colleagues, friends and relatives on September 11, 2001.

Founded in 2025, BandJAM expands to South Florida. It's a live guided group session meant to bring groups closer together and aid people who are struggling with their mental health.

The now-retired Judge Steven Leifman said he envisioned a place that could divert people away from the ninth floor of a detention center into a facility where they would receive individualized mental health treatment.

Children in crisis have been sent as far as St. Lucie County for mental health assessments since December 2024.

The pair of resolutions had been held up in legal negotiations and committee meetings as Miami-Dade's government received mounting calls from residents to make a decision on issues facing Miami's vulnerable people and economy.

Intense public pressure has not been enough to push a proposal for a Center for Mental Health & Recovery to a full commission agenda.

An interfaith coalition called Miami PACT pushed leaders from Miami-Dade County to pledge specific actions to tackle the needs of Miami's low-income residents.

Florida ranked 38th out of 49 states when it comes to susceptibility to burnout in a new study. But researchers say the climate can only do so much.