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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Two and a half months have passed since the state Attorney General’s Office began investigating a fatal police shooting of a Gilford teenager by a police officer.Attorney General investigations into fatal police shootings are made public once they are...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Riverbend Community Mental Health will receive part of a $500,000 grant to help meet the behavioral health needs of the children and families in the community, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic.“Recognizing that New Hampshire has a long way...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Lisa Colburn, a schoolteacher who lives in Weare, woke up to a knock on her front door and bright blue lights flashing outside.On a Saturday night in December two years ago, the police had come to ask for her daughter. She had texted a friend about...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Hearing President Joe Biden address mental health to the entire nation was an important night for Susan Stearns.“Each of us can be ambassadors and have a role to play in dispelling stigma, and ensuring folks hang on to hope, seek the care that they...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has spent millions to expand mental health treatment in the last two years. Yet those who need it are still waiting. In emergency rooms, some for days. At home for a mobile crisis team that’s an hour-plus away. For a counseling appointment....

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Just a fraction of the state’s police officers have completed training that is considered the “gold standard” for law enforcement to better respond to mental health emergency calls.About 16% of all 2,900 sworn police officers in New Hampshire have...

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state’s purchase of Hampstead Hospital last year for a behavioral health campus cost the town of Hampstead nearly $178,000 in annual property taxes. An item before the Executive Council Wednesday would replace that full amount with federal money...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Mischa Fay got his boating license when he was 15 and would often take solo sailing trips around Lake Winnipesaukee. He was a “Star Wars” fanatic who was an encyclopedia of trivia. Like a lot of 17-year-olds, he loved pizza and hot sauce.More than...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Amber MacQuarrie, a single mother of two from Dublin was running an infant daycare when she started experiencing extreme lung pain in 2018.After running tests, doctors concluded that the pain was caused by a cyst the size of a fist and she required...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

This year, the state’s efforts to address its inadequate mental health system made progress with expanded facilities and 24/7 assistance programs, but experts say much more work needs to be done to remedy a shortage of psychiatric and behavioral...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — At the end of the second week of fall term classes, roughly 500 members of the Dartmouth College community gathered the evening of Sept. 23 in front of Baker-Berry Library to listen to the college’s president, chaplain and student leaders...

By ELLA NILSEN

Filmmaker Todd Wider was first inspired to make a documentary about mental illness when he experienced it firsthand in his hometown of New York City.Wider came home one night to find that a homeless man had broken in because he was cold and trying to...