mental health

Jail-based pilot programs from the Missouri Department of Mental Health are enabling some people to stand trial while they wait for a state hospital bed in jail or out on bond, but the backlog is still growing.

Jean Kuczka, a health and physical education teacher at Central Visual and Performing Arts high school and cross-country coach at Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, was shot and killed three years ago while protecting her students.

Missouri-born music artist Chappell Roan has announced the launch of a project supporting LGBTQ+ communities throughout the country — including two community centers in Missouri.

Burrell Behavioral Health has broken ground on a new Behavioral Health Crisis Center in Columbia.

Cynthia Martin grew up and still lives in very rural Missouri. She’s a transgender woman that began transitioning later in life – as she approached 40. She spoke about some of the challenges she’s faced and about her hopes for her future.

PFLAG Sedalia is a community group focused on serving LGBTQ+ folks and their families throughout western Missouri and beyond.

Legal sports betting is scheduled to start in the state on Dec. 1. Many bettors are eager for it to begin, but addiction health advocates are concerned about easily accessible mobile gambling.

Many patients don’t stick to their recovery plans after orthopedic surgery, but one new study from the University of Missouri has found that checking in on patients' social and mental needs may help.

The Pettis County Health Center has just officially become a milk depot – which means they are now a drop off site for those wishing to donate human breast milk to help medically fragile and premature infants.

Makenzie Schroeder and Lissa Behm-Morrowitz at the University of Missouri recently released a study about how using social media filters to change one’s appearance can lead to a phenomenon called “social self-comparison.”