North Carolina had the 10th-highest infant mortality rate among states in 2023, according to the North Carolina Child ...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has launched the NC Black Youth Suicide Prevention Action Plan in ...

A transgender Western Carolina University student and local LGBTQ+ advocate is speaking out after the Trump administration’s ...

The “Press 3 option” at the lifeline is gone, but NC public health leaders have trained call takers to work with LGBTQ+ people in crisis.

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline has discontinued its specialized support for LGBTQ+ youth, eliminating the "Press 3" option, following the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' decision to ...

FILE -- Kody Kinsley, then Deputy Secretary at the N.C. DHHS, answers a question during a press conference in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, July 31, 2020.

For the past month, WFAE has been examining North Carolina’s broken mental health system, especially as it affects people in the criminal justice system. This week, we start to look at the ...

A public health crisis is brewing as the number of registered organ donors falls and transplant waitlists grow.

In North Carolina, about 50% of youth with mental health disorders do not receive necessary care. Youth are six times more likely to complete evidence-based treatment when it is offered in schools ...

In an open letter to Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican legislative leaders, 11 health-care groups and the N.C. Chamber warn that the state is nearing a mental-health services crisis in the wake of ...

Tina Marshall props a sign against a bush outside the North Carolina Executive Mansion in downtown Raleigh Friday afternoon as a part of the Vigil for Freedom and Racial Justice December 16, 2022.

Lack of access to mental health care inside North Carolina's prisons has an increasing number of advocates worried about a looming crisis.