The current state of juvenile facilities is difficult to face, but the Legislature must address it, and the buck stops with ...

On Tuesday, youth advocates from Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth were at the capitol to lobby lawmakers for more restrictions on cannabis and alcopop products. The youth advoc ...

Waiver program faces funding crisis, leaving thousands of children without access to critical mental health care.

However, the report said only 2,227 youth were served that same ... statewide service,” said Jennifer Ruffcorn, Texas Health and Human Services Commission spokesperson. Monica Reyes, a certified ...

Despite the increased inquiries over the last five years, the number of youth served has steadily declined ... as a statewide service,” said Jennifer Ruffcorn, Texas Health and Human Services ...

"The surge in youth mental health challenges stems ... to lessen social media's negative impacts, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission recently awarded Bexar County's mental health ...

Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy. David Muhammad (center) teaching a session of the Healthy, Wealthy and Wise program in Oakland, Calif., for young ...

Health care services for the approximately 150,000 offenders within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and Texas Youth Commission are provided through an arrangement with two university ...

“The surge in youth mental health challenges stems from multiple ... A sign of the state’s increased effort to lessen social media’s negative impacts, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission ...

Social media’s danger on youth mental health has captured ... lessen social media’s negative impacts, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission recently awarded Bexar County’s mental ...