The Illinois cuts are part of $12 billion in grants that the federal Department of Health and Human Services canceled this ...

Uptown People’s Law Center and Equip for Equality filed a class action lawsuit against IDOC Director Latoya Hughes on behalf ...

Nineteen inmates filed a class-action lawsuit claiming Illinois prisons punish instead of treat mental illness. Advocates say ...

Many ways to improve treatment are expensive and could be in peril if Medicaid funding is slashed by the Trump administration ...

State lawmakers and advocates argue Illinois needs to provide more funding for mental health services on college campuses.

With only about 1,200 state psychiatric beds in Illinois, he says more funding for community mental health would allow people who don’t need 24/7 hospitalization to leave state mental hospitals ...

A federal probe into Illinois’ treatment of disabled people will examine abuse and neglect allegations at state-run residential institutions — including Choate, the subject of a yearlong Capitol News ...

Abhinav Anne and Sai Ganbote, both juniors at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, pitched Illinois State lawmakers, and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Illinois high school students have asked state lawmakers to pass a plan this spring to require age-appropriate mental health education in middle school and high school.

“The State of Illinois will do everything in our power ... The $28 million in mental health funding, granted through the American Rescue Plan Act signed by former President Joe Biden in 2021 ...