-
Peyton Gast/JPREquine-assisted psychotherapy can offer young clients a different way to work through trauma, but the treatment can be difficult to access in Southern Oregon. -
Jenny Kane/APA majority of the subjects in the first rigorous study of legal psilocybin reported fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression and more than half ranked the experience among the most meaningful of their lives.
-
The use of chatbots has exploded over the last two years, and people are increasingly turning to them for mental health advice. SB 903 would ban advertising chatbots as therapy and add rules for AI use in formal health spaces. -
Five million dollars in California state funding was awarded to a Redding non-profit for a project to help rural behavioral health groups better communicate with each other. -
Kenneth Hass was 25 when he died at the state’s largest psychiatric hospital last year. His sister says the treatment he received amounted to torture. -
Oregon regulators want to double licensing fees for psilocybin businesses. Owners say the proposed increases could slow growth and threaten the industry's future. -
For the first time in years, Oregon is in compliance with a court order restricting how long mentally ill criminal defendants can be held in jail. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court struggles to serve Californians in acute mental health crises. Two bills are moving forward to change that. -
The program is meant to help people with certain mental health conditions, but there are still ongoing issues. -
Many parts of Oregon are lacking in mental health care providers, especially in rural counties. -
After ‘missing the boat’ on social media regulation, an Oregon senator cites mental health concerns, youth access as key issues with unregulated AI use. -
Five years ago, Oregon provided $6 million to fund short-term residential centers for those experiencing mental health crises. For organizations hoping to launch programs, getting funding was only the start of challenges. -
San Mateo, California adopted a new approach to mental health 911 calls by pairing police with mental health clinicians. Researchers found that it reduced the number of future mental health emergency calls and involuntary psychiatric holds by roughly 17%. -
Senior Californians in rural communities are dying by suicide at troubling rates—struggling with pain, cut off from doctors and mental health care, with guns at hand. Access to care and safety planning would help, experts say.
