The Department of Justice has taken a big, if somewhat unheralded, step to reverse the trend of deinstitutionalization of the ...

Romania is in the final stages of closing its old orphanages, a process which began in the 1990s, when more than 100,000 children were living in such institutions.  At this moment, there are only 7 ...

The public deserves policy responses grounded in evidence, not ones shaped by political agendas and media-driven fear.

Based on: Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill by Torrey E. Fuller ( New York : Harper and Row, 1988 ). 256 pp. $8.95 paper, $18.95 hardcover The sight of unkempt individuals ...

One of the charming, if bizarre, discoveries I made living in New England was its constellation of splendid, thoroughly abandoned mental institutions. They occupied commanding heights in bucolic rural ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has acted to stabilize New York's psych bed supply, adding more than 300 beds to the total, writes columnist Stephen Eide. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post See more of our coverage ...

The United States faces an urgent mental health crisis that includes many individuals living on our streets and filling up emergency rooms. Decades after the deinstitutionalization movement began, ...

ZAGREB, February 5, 2025 – A path is paved for over 900 children, youth, and persons with disabilities to transition from institutional care to community-based living with support. In an important ...

Homelessness plagues the American city. It is a simple description of a complex reality, and part of what has brought the issue to its current level is an erroneous conception of “community ...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, or CMES, and several other campus centers, are “deinstitutionalizing” UC Berkeley’s Bridging Fellowship Program, according to an email from campus professor and ...