In California, foster youth need long-term, consistent care. It requires more commitment than simply prescribing medications.

A doctor who lost both parents to suicide on how he has learned to cope with the anniversaries of their deaths.

Four former foster youth, now adults, talk about how psychiatric medications impacted their childhoods, and life after meds.

A psychologist writes to say that our report on a randomized clinical trial for Therabot, an AI therapy chatbot, overlooked ...

An exclusive interview with Bandy X. Lee, a prominent psychiatrist who risked her career to warn the public of Trump’s mental unfitness for office.

Rossy Soto is a junion at Annandale High School in Annandale, VA, a high school partner of Youthcast Media Group.

Alicia Bissonette, a 21-year-old living among the lakes and foothills of western Maine, recalls her teenage years in foster care as a heavily medicated, crises-filled blur. After years of childhood ...

Prescribing to foster youth of psych meds has fallen since judges were tasked with oversight. Still, says one, "constant vigilance" is needed.

Caregiving 'unlocks new parts of yourself' and expands who you are, even if it is often lonely and exhausting.

This week and next, we are publishing an investigative series, Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out? by The Imprint, a ...

A leaked document from the Trump administration's budget office reveals plans for massive cutting of mental health and addiction programs.