Mental Health

“I have to meet this guy and have sex with him. If I don’t, then he and his friends are going to rape my little sister,” a student at Frank Ballou High School in Ward 8’s Congress Heights told her teacher. The teacher was trying to persuade…

The crisis line saves lives, but can be a difficult stop on mental-health survivors' journeys toward hope.

Hours are long, health insurance is scarce, chefs can scream, and guests can sneer.

The lawsuit filed in federal court on behalf of emotionally disturbed children is more of a scandal to those of us old enough to remember the class-action lawsuit Bobby D. v. Barry, filed in 1977 on behalf of the same population of…