/tags/mental-illness mental illness en-US Copyright Tue, 13 May 2025 09:00:00 GMT /2025-05-13/mom-take-me-home-a-process-meant-to-help-mentally-ill-people-traps-some-in-indiana-jails A Side Effects Public Media investigation found that in 2024, people in Indiana jails waited just over two months on average to get the two court-ordered mental health evaluations done — down from more than seven months in 2018. That’s according to an analysis of the state’s judicial branch data on all requests for competency evaluations during that time period. Tue, 13 May 2025 09:00:00 GMT /2025-05-13/mom-take-me-home-a-process-meant-to-help-mentally-ill-people-traps-some-in-indiana-jails Side Effects Public Media /2025-01-13/how-an-ohio-coroners-office-is-working-to-prevent-suicide-deaths Dallas Allen is a Suicide Investigations and Postvention specialist at the Franklin County Coroner’s Office. His work could help prevent suicide deaths across the state. Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:00:00 GMT /2025-01-13/how-an-ohio-coroners-office-is-working-to-prevent-suicide-deaths Kendall Crawford /news/2019-05-20/ohio-bill-would-bar-death-penalty-for-defendants-with-serious-mental-illness A bill now in Ohio's Legislature would prevent people convicted of aggravated murder from being sentenced to the death penalty, if they are found to have… Mon, 20 May 2019 13:16:48 GMT /news/2019-05-20/ohio-bill-would-bar-death-penalty-for-defendants-with-serious-mental-illness Associated Press /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2018-04-27/mental-health-and-minority-communities Minority groups such as African Americans and Latinos are often overlooked by the mental health community. Lack of availability, cultural stigma of mental… Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:00:00 GMT /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2018-04-27/mental-health-and-minority-communities /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2018-03-29/mental-health-and-minority-communities Minority groups such as African Americans and Latinos are often overlooked by the mental health community. Lack of availability, cultural stigma of mental… Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:00:00 GMT /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2018-03-29/mental-health-and-minority-communities /news/2015-05-14/franklin-county-works-to-reduce-jail-stays-for-mentally-ill Franklin County officials say too many mentally ill inmates stay in jail too long, so they're looking into ways to reduce jail stays.The Council of State… Thu, 14 May 2015 12:36:58 GMT /news/2015-05-14/franklin-county-works-to-reduce-jail-stays-for-mentally-ill /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2014-07-01/mental-illness-and-the-justice-system In the US, ten times as many mentally ill people are housed in a prison or jail as in a hospital. But a new grant will invest in training for Ohio cops to… Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:00:32 GMT /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2014-07-01/mental-illness-and-the-justice-system admin /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2014-05-22/veterans-and-ptsd-the-latest-therapies Two million veterans have returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan, and 1 in 5 have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a mental illness that can turn their… Thu, 22 May 2014 15:00:38 GMT /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2014-05-22/veterans-and-ptsd-the-latest-therapies admin /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2012-04-05/perspectives-on-the-treatment-of-mental-illness-in-america Are medications the only way to treat mental illness in America? How do counseling and therapy fit into treatment programs? What actually works when… Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:00:45 GMT /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2012-04-05/perspectives-on-the-treatment-of-mental-illness-in-america admin /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2012-03-19/struggles-of-families-and-mentally-ill-adults The stories about people who are mentally ill and struggling to cope, often with their families at their sides, are common. Last week, we heard that the… Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:00:10 GMT /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2012-03-19/struggles-of-families-and-mentally-ill-adults admin