A reporter seeks answers on the use of residential treatment programs nationwide — and the rationale for sending kids away ...

The academic in me is never going to say causality,” said Harvard's Jeremy Faust. “But the person with a functioning brain is ...

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

Asian Americans, who make up 7% of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all chronic hepatitis B cases. Roughly ...

Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, especially by chronic infections. Years of community work ...

About a decade ago, a Topsham-area school district became concerned about how often staff members physically restrained students who were acting out and put them in seclusion rooms, especially the ...

Over the summer, the 43-year-old mother had exhausted every avenue to find her teenage son the mental health care he badly needed as his behavior spiraled to alarming and dangerous levels. The ...

Maine students have been restrained and secluded more than 22,000 times a year in some years. But the real number of times educators put students in holds, move them against their will and shut them ...

When Heather Preston adopted her two sons, finding them care became her full-time job. After the siblings, whom Preston adopted from foster care, moved from a small southern Iowa town into her Des ...