FOX 7 Discussion: TCSO, Baylor University team up on project to calculate inmate suicide risk
Danny Smith, mental health services director for the Travis County Sheriff's Office, joins Marcel Clarke to discuss the collaboration between Baylor University and TCSO to calculate inmate suicide risk.
Regulators to set up 3-digit suicide hotline number like 911
Federal regulators are setting up a new three-digit number to reach a suicide prevention hotline in order to make it easier to seek help and reduce the stigma associated with mental health.
Hi, How Are You Day returns to Austin on January 22
The HHAY Project is a non-profit named after late artist and musician Daniel Johnston. The organization was formed to educate and create open discussions about mental health.
Mother shares heartbreaking before-and-after photos of son in throes of addiction
A mother from Missouri recently posted a photo on her Facebook depicting what she calls the true face of addiction. The two photos, she said, were taken just seven months apart.
Integral Care opens up community housing in East Austin for the homeless
Integral Care opened the Terrace at Oak Springs, a unique apartment complex in East Austin housing 50 homeless people and providing ongoing health care services.
FOX 7 Discussion: Suicide care initiative in Texas
Suicide is a serious, but preventable public health problem. Integral Care, as the local authority for behavioral health and developmental disabilities in Texas, has taken the lead on initiatives to help educate our community in hopes of collaboratively preventing suicides from occurring.
Police prevent suicides
Officers say we are facing a mental health crisis in this country. Suicidal subject calls are increasing. Officers from Austin to the smaller Pflugerville are responding to hundreds, even thousands of cases per year. In this week’s Crimewatch FOX 7's Noelle Newton shows you at the incredible risk officers are taking to save these people and get them the help they need.
Intervention efforts to helping first responders battle stress
We often look to first responders as heroes--those who have an inner toughness to display courage in times of chaos. But they are not numb to the trauma they see.
New campaign to educate about mental health of first responders
Mental health issues are a big problem facing fire and EMS workers, but a newly founded campaign, named Code Green, is hoping to help by educating first responders.
Travis Co. mental health docket handles 5,000th case
The Travis County District Attorney's Office is working to connect criminals with mental illness to community resources.