mental health

A citizen initiative enacted last year lets parents review textbooks and curriculum, and also lets parents access school mental health records. That's raised privacy concerns.

“I really want to start an epidemic of listening, but not shallow listening — really listening to what people are saying,” Kay Keeler, 88, said.

Integrating the arts, particularly music, into holistic health care continues to gain momentum in Washington state. Music therapy has found a foothold in Seattle, a hub for both medical care and music.

Chief Seattle Club has built hundreds of affordable and supportive housing units, but some say residents need more mental health and substance abuse treatment.

HearMeWa is a helpline designed to connect youth to services that can help them navigate crises using a more holistic approach than other traditional methods.

In parts of the state, people are waiting weeks for a public defender — but even in King County, where it's a government job with good pay, public defenders say there aren't enough.

Now offered in more than a dozen schools in Washington state, Clayful connects students with mental health coaches via text message.

A group of lawmakers want a federal program that protects the health and wellbeing of commercial fishermen to be expanded to include substance use disorder and worker fatigue.

Seattle Children's Hospital said it's boosting security in its Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit, after nurses in the unit raised concerns about low staffing levels and patients becoming more violent.

More than 40 states filed legal actions against Meta on Tuesday, alleging that the company intentionally designed features that hooked a generation of young people.