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MindSite News is a fresh nonprofit and nonpartisan digital news organization focused on mental health issues in the United States. Our mission is to highlight significant policy failures and showcase initiatives aimed at addressing them. We strive to foster a national awareness regarding the mental health system's challenges and shortcomings. Through our reporting, we aim to influence improvements in the system, ensuring it becomes more fair, efficient, transparent, and compassionate for those and their families dealing with mental health conditions.

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Less Trauma Means Less Crime

2 weeks ago | mindsitenews.org | Courtney E. Wise

April 9, 2025By Courtney WiseGreetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, we find that less trauma means less crime — and it can help reduce our country’s sky-high rates of imprisonment. Research also shows that wellness farms aren’t a universal balm for mental illness and addiction, but community-based mental health care often is.
Grandfathers Unite to Mentor Boys and Dads

3 weeks ago | mindsitenews.org | Courtney E. Wise

Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, grandpas team up to support boys and new fathers as they grow. A recent documentary from ProPublica spotlights the tragic reality of stillbirths in the US, many which are preventable. And Youthcast Media Group brings us a story about how important it is for high school coaches to offer mental health support in their sports programs.
The Press Has 'Sanewashed' Trump's Dementia and Mental Illness

3 weeks ago | mindsitenews.org | Diana Hembree

The founder of Duty to Warn says ‘Trump is the American Hitler, and immigrants are the new Jews’At MindSite News, we sat down for a Zoom call with Dr. John Gartner, a prominent psychotherapist and author who has practiced in Baltimore for 35 years and taught part-time at Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
Chaos at SAMHSA: Inside America's mental health agency

1 month ago | mindsitenews.org | Art Levine |Rob Waters

‘People are going to die’ if cuts continues, mental health workers warnAs Elon Musk and his young engineers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have purged thousands of federal employees, they’ve insisted they are only terminating low-performing and probationary workers and that their actions won’t impede the ability of government agencies to do their work, but rather make them more efficient.
Helping Children Grieve Their Parents

1 month ago | mindsitenews.org | Courtney E. Wise

March 13, 2025By Courtney WiseParental deaths have been rising over the last five years in the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an overdose epidemic and gun violence. “Forgotten Children” is a four-part series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood grief – and the efforts toward healing. You can find our stories in the series here, and read more about them below.
RFK and Trump's Real Mental Health Agenda

1 month ago | mindsitenews.org | Don Sapatkin

Trump and Kennedy’s real agenda on mental health, according to a psychiatry residentI just read an analysis in The New Republic by Eric Reinhart, MD, a leftwing psychiatry resident and political anthropologist about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the “Make America Healthy Again” commission that President Trump assigned him to lead will together end mental health care as we know it.
Abortion Bans Erode Trust Between Women and Their Therapists

1 month ago | mindsitenews.org | Courtney E. Wise

Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, Trump’s cuts within the Department of Housing and Urban Development spark concerns about housing insecurity for children. Despite a relentless series of troubling updates from the White House, resistance is happening. Plus, experts offer up better ways to argue.
Abortion bans erode trust between clients and their therapists

1 month ago | mindsitenews.org | Gina Jimenez |Rob Waters

A pro-choice national directory links clients with vetted therapists to discuss abortionThe Texas woman been out of the psychiatric hospital only four months when she learned she was pregnant. Just 21 years old and struggling with bipolar disorder, her mental health had collapsed after losing her job as a waiter.
When Cruelty Is The Point

1 month ago | mindsitenews.org | Courtney E. Wise

Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, federal workers say mass firings are eroding their mental well-being. Also, two items around dementia: In one, despite the legality of medically-assisted death in the Netherlands, patients aren’t able to choose the deaths they’d want. In another, dementia-inclusive design is helping people navigate their neighborhoods and retain their independence.
The Devastating Toll of Online Gambling Addiction

2 months ago | mindsitenews.org | Courtney E. Wise

Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, one woman sues DraftKings for enabling her husband’s problem gambling after he showed clear signs of addiction. Distress for workers and communities amid mass firings of federal workers. And many immigrant children in Chicago are afraid to go to school for fear of encountering ICE or finding their parents were deported while they were gone, a MindSite News/palabra investigation finds.