The fatal shooting came after officers visited the same home five times on the weekend of Aug. 25-27.

Care farms are agricultural places for people with physical or mental health challenges to process their emotions, while performing farming tasks and working with animals. Its a popular concept in Europe that hasnt gained as much traction in the United States yet. But a new national network hopes to change that.

A recent report from the Girl Coalition of Indiana found that in 2022, nearly half of middle and high school girls experienced depression.

The Clinician-led Community Response Team is deployed across the city’s downtown district. There are no police or members of law enforcement on the team, an arrangement that has never existed in Indianapolis before.

A new service added to the 988 Lifeline will offer suicide prevention and mental health crisis counseling through American Sign Language for people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing without the need for an interpreter.

Community members criticized the proposed budget for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department at a public hearing Wednesday, calling it “excessive.”

Dozens of community members expressed frustration toward law enforcement’s attempts to explain the complex process of what comes after an officer shoots a person.

An IMPD officer shot a man on the northwest side of Indianapolis on Sunday night. The man was reportedly having a mental episode and was threatening family members and officers with a machete.

Indianapolis’ new Clinician-Led Community Response team has been responding to mental health crises since July 1.

Educators across Indiana are planning how to address students mental health and substance abuse when school starts in the fall. A recent collaboration between educators and community groups spread awareness about the need for mental health and substance abuse programming and resources available to schools.