July 13, 2024, 6:04am Health
After her son, the family’s shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances of getting professional help were next to zero. She contemplated suicide. Read story
June 24, 2024, 8:35am Health
Up to $100 million could soon be poured into building housing for patients recently released from Washington’s state psychiatric hospitals, with the hope that increasing housing supply will stop patients from returning to the criminal justice system. Read story
June 12, 2024, 7:44am Health
Growing up closeted in Eastern Washington, Conner Mertens often found himself struggling. Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:02am Clark County News
Neighbors of a Fruit Valley home for mentally ill and chronically homeless people have banded together to try to convince the city of Vancouver to shut it down. They say the home’s unsupervised residents have become a nuisance. The owner of the home says the alternative for the residents is… Read story
May 21, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Health
Life used to look a lot different for Siddhartha Fisher. He was a gifted child — class president of his elementary school and winner of a state chess championship in sixth grade, his family said. Read story
May 21, 2024, 6:09am Business
A national study published by the journal JAMA Psychiatry earlier this month found private equity firms now account for as much as a quarter of practices providing mental health services in some states. In Washington, about 3 percent of mental health clinics and 8 percent of substance use clinics are… Read story
May 3, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Health
Jacques Le’Sueur’s phone calls to his family stopped a year ago when Clark County sent him to Western State Hospital, a psychiatric facility 130 miles away. Now, he’s a missing person. Read story
April 25, 2024, 3:18pm Clark County Health
Becky Berhardt vividly remembers bawling on the phone years ago as she spoke with her son, who was struggling with homelessness and addiction. Read story
April 24, 2024, 11:46am Clark County News
A judge found a Vancouver man who trapped his girlfriend in his apartment and blinded her not guilty by reason of insanity Friday. Read story
April 19, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Health
The butterfly symbolizes transformation and embarking on a new phase of life. Read story
