MENTAL HEALTH

Friends and family of Miguel Estrella gathered Sunday in Persip Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to remember 22-year-old Miguel Estrella, who was fatally shot by a city police officer a year ago.

The mother of a Stamford, Connecticut, teenager says she’s not safe at home. A hospital says she can’t stay there forever. And alternate schools say she’s too aggressive to be enrolled. A family struggles with the question: Where does she go?

Citizens for Juvenile Justice compiled data showing foster children fare much worse academically than their peers.

Massachusetts Medical Society said its survey of more than 500 members found a majority "experienced symptoms that reach the threshold for burnout."

In 2019, more than a third of eighth-grade students reported sustained sadness or hopelessness that impacted their usual activities.

GameSense was implemented as part of the state's casino legislation.

It’s a heartbreakingly familiar pattern across the U.S. Another mass shooting. Another shrine appears at the site of the tragedy — flowers, teddy bears, candles. Later, communities have to decide what to save and how to tell the story. Here's how some choose to archive the aftermath.

People can experience symptoms of PTSD after being exposed to videos with violence and death. Those symptoms can show up immediately or weeks later.

Experts found that problems that existed before COVID-19 were only exacerbated by the pandemic.

Thirty-seven hospitals in Massachusetts have started offering intensive home-based mental health care to the families of children stuck in emergency rooms.