behavioral health

There aren’t enough behavioral health providers in Ohio to keep up with rising demand. So people are increasingly leaning on another source of support: peers.

Rural schools across Ohio are training their students in mental health first aid. The peer support training aims to fill in the gaps left by a lack of school counselors.

Ohio’s rural areas struggle with access to mental health care providers. Kent State University’s new social work degree hopes to build a bigger workforce.

The governor wants to make mental and behavioral health services a priority in the new General Assembly.

The goal of a new bill is to improve access to service to the 500,000 Ohioans who seek mental health services every year.

Federal law mandates insurers treat mental health services like they would physical health care. But the sponsors of a new bill in the Ohio Legislature…

The state wants to change to the way mental health and addiction services are billed and coded, to align with national standards. But providers of those…

More than 15,000 Ohioans have texted a free crisis line when they have faced mental crisis within the past three years. The state and local behavioral…