mental health

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Nearly half of inmates being held in jails across the country have been told that they have had a mental disorder, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Compared to 2022, there’s been a 54% decrease in fatal opioid overdoses in Milwaukee County.

A recent American Medical Association study found that physicians on average suffer from depression, anxiety and PTSD at higher rates than the general population.

The initiative is working to increase access to perinatal mental health care through peer support, resource brokering and advocacy.

UWM Adjunct Lecturer Marin Denning joins Lake Effect to discuss the impacts of intergenerational trauma on Indigenous communities ahead of a UWM's Trauma in Our Community Conference.

Black professionals in Milwaukee are at the helm of a new-non-profit called Empathy Mental Health dedicated to increasing access for mental healthcare in the Black community.

To help break the stigma, a Milwaukee-area podcast gives teens a platform to talk about their mental health journeys.

There is an emphasis of protecting the mental health of survivors as they cope with the loss of loved ones to violence.

When someone dies by suicide, there are a lot of unanswered questions that can complicate the grieving process. We explore what that grief can look like and how we can heal in community.

Through experimental cinematography and sound, the documentary "unseen" reimagines accessibility in cinema while following the life of an undocumented aspiring social worker named Pedro.