COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – State lawmakers are considering a bill to make it easier to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental illness – and disability rights advocates are seriously concerned. For ...

(WXYZ) — The 7 Investigators were the first to show you in February how patients have been alleging they were held against their will in psychiatric hospitals, or ...

Inmates with mental illness often wait months for care to give them a shot at being deemed capable to assist in their defense. Disability Rights North Carolina wants a judge to order the state’s ...

Disability Rights Oregon’s case can proceed against Washington County, alleging that 911 dispatchers routinely fail to send trained mental health clinicians to calls involving people in crisis and ...

Federal investigators are launching a probe into whether Michigan unnecessarily institutionalizes adults with serious mental illness into state psychiatric hospitals. The U.S. Department of Justice ...

Mental health patients have legal rights. Learn about reasonable adjustments, consent, ableism, coercion, and how to handle ...

To coincide with the ‘teachers’ theme of my most recent newsletter I thought it apropos to write a post regarding accommodations for students with mental health issues in a post-secondary setting.