Mental Health

At Fox Run, one of Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment centers, kids and former staff detail a litany of trauma.

The Keep Them Safe Act allows a person struggling with suicidal thoughts or other mental health emergencies to temporarily store their firearms with federally registered gun dealers or law enforcement officers.

Newly passed Ohio gun legislation will give a safe storage option for gun owners in crisis.

Sen. Willis Blackshear (D-Dayton) said he hopes his trek will draw attention to the issue of mental health.

Issue 5 on the May 5 primary ballot asks voters if they want to establish a team of clinicians and social workers to respond to non-violent crises in place of police officers.

The proposal comes just months after The Marshall Project - Cleveland exposed violence at a residential youth facility northeast of Columbus.

What the Framingham study did for heart disease, the State of Ohio Adversity and Resilience (SOAR) Project wants to do for mental health.

In eastern Ohio’s Carroll County, the suicide rate is nearly double the state average. Community health workers are trying to change that.

Columbus City Council came to an agreement that would put a ballot issue on November's ballot to create an alternative crisis response team. The city negotiated the terms with the Columbus Safety Collective on the group's proposal before coming to an agreement.

Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said the city will use $1 million in new funding to create a team of non-uniform experts who will respond to certain mental and behavioral health crises in place of the police.