F.D. Flam: The spike in child mortality won’t go away on its own

Commentary: School-based clinicians on front lines of youth mental health crisis

Through direct school-based behavioral health services, Maine students are able to learn coping and regulation skills. Those skills are needed more than ever.

Maine Children’s Home in Waterville seeking new director

Richard Dorian, executive director of the 124-year-old nonprofit organization, plans to leave July 31 to pursue a job as a full time church pastor.

Maine children continue to struggle in pandemic’s wake

More youths are facing mental health, academic and housing instability problems than before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by the Maine Children's Alliance.

Commentary: It’s time to talk about fentanyl ingestion in children

The first problem is failure to test for fentanyl when a drug test is ordered. The second problem is timely recognition and treatment of opioid ingestion in children, which is nowhere near as rare as we like to think.

Commentary: Maine is an outlier for youth psychiatric treatment

L.D. 181 would require DHHS to eliminate the barriers to providing residential treatment for Maine young people closer to home.

Our View: Give young psychiatric patients somewhere to go

Legislating for new mental health facilities may not sit well with everyone. We should be far more uncomfortable with the alternative: leaving vulnerable young Mainers hanging in the balance.

Book review: A boy goes on a quest through mysterious realms to atone for his mother’s fatal mistake

In 'Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods,' writer Catherynne M. Valente's sense of place is imaginative and gripping.

Our View: Keeping kids in poverty is our choice. What’s it going to be?

The expanded child tax credit pulled millions of kids out of poverty before expiring. It can do so again.

Commentary: Shooting for a better moon

If we divert the $1.8 billion devoted to the cancer ‘moonshot’ into ending hunger, every dollar spent will have a guaranteed positive impact on health immediately – in Maine and across the country.