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1 week ago | 
newjerseyhills.com | Bobby Brier
This article is part of the NJ Spotlight News “Under the Dome” series that takes a deep dive into state government and how its actions and policies affect the people who live and work in New Jersey. Young people experiencing suicidal ideation could soon have more access to supportive mental health services under a bill that recently cleared a state Senate committee.
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1 week ago | 
njspotlightnews.org | Bobby Brier
Young people experiencing suicidal ideation could soon have more access to supportive mental health services under a bill that cleared a Senate committee earlier this week. The legislation, if signed into law, would allow operators at 988 crisis hotline centers throughout the state to place follow-up calls and text messages to adolescents 16 or older who are considered to be at a “high risk” of dying by suicide without having to first obtain consent from the child’s parent.
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4 weeks ago | 
newjerseyhills.com | Bobby Brier
Spurred by a stark shortage of providers and a growing need for behavioral health care and substance use treatment services, New Jersey lawmakers and the state’s governor took action. New Jersey has a new law that will allow social workers in the state to expand care to clients across the country without having to get new licenses from individual states. The goal, supporters say, is to increase the number of people able to offer treatment.
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1 month ago | 
njspotlightnews.org | Bobby Brier
Althea Gifth of Newark said she relies on the NJ Transit train service to get to and from her job everyday as a home health aide on Long Island, where she is a caretaker for a 90-year-old woman. But the strike by union rail engineers forced her to stay at her client’s house in New York on Friday night, she said. Gifth then took a 9:47 a.m. train from Long Island on Saturday, but around 2 p.m. she was still in Newark Penn Station trying to get home.
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1 month ago | 
njspotlightnews.org | Bobby Brier
On April 28, air traffic controllers temporarily lost radar and radio communication with planes flying into and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. The equipment failure happened to controllers working at Area C of the Philadelphia TRACON, who are responsible for guiding flights entering and leaving Newark Airport.
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1 month ago | 
njspotlightnews.org | Bobby Brier
Students across the state who struggle with anxiety, depression or suicidal ideation could have more difficulty accessing services after the Trump administration canceled nearly $1 billion in nationwide school-based mental health funding last week. The New Jersey Department of Education was in its third year of implementing a five-year, $15 million effort to expand access to mental health professionals in schools throughout the state.
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1 month ago | 
nj.com | Bobby Brier
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by NJ Spotlight News and shared as part of a content-sharing agreement between Mosaic.NJ.com and NJ Spotlight News. You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter (or X). LGBTQ+ young people in need of mental health support would face dire, potentially life-threatening circumstances if President Trump’s plan to cut funding for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is approved by Congress, advocates say.
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1 month ago | 
nj.com | Bobby Brier
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by NJ Spotlight News and shared as part of a content-sharing agreement between Mosaic.NJ.com and NJ Spotlight News. You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter (or X). Community-based violence intervention programs across New Jersey have laid off employees and, in some cases, ended services altogether after the U.S. Department of Justice abruptly canceled hundreds of ongoing grants last week.
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2 months ago | 
njspotlightnews.org | Bobby Brier
Community-based violence intervention programs across New Jersey have laid off employees and in some cases ended services altogether after the U.S. Department of Justice abruptly canceled hundreds of ongoing grants last week. Cure4Camden’s street outreach team is in the process of shutting down.
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2 months ago | 
nj.com | Bobby Brier
Editor’s note: This story was shared as part of a content-sharing agreement between Mosaic.NJ.com and NJ Spotlight News. You can follow them on Facebook and Twitter (or X). For a young person in a mental health crisis, schools, hospitals, advocacy groups, statewide organizations and community-based nonprofits in New Jersey offer a range of options. But the problem for families can often be in finding and connecting with these services. Take Shilpa Kulkarni of Livingston, who knows this all too well.
