Rochelle Community Hospital launched a new Behavioral Health Services department in April, RCH Chief Nursing Officer Rhonda Marks said Oct. 9.

University of Illinois Extension and Sinnissippi Centers are partnering to host a mental health first aid workshop Nov. 3, 2025, at the Whiteside Extension Office in Sterling.

School districts still don’t know what the screenings will look like, how they will be implemented and where their funding will come from.

The TALK-LINE interview for Sept. 25 featured the Marketing Manager of Sinnissippi Centers of Dixon, Andy Jackson, discussing National Recovery Month in September to increase awareness that treatment works and recovery is possible.

Gov. JB Pritzker joined school leaders, elected officials, students, staff and community members at Joliet Junior College to celebrate the grand opening of its new Center for Student Wellness and Support on Tuesday.

With low commodity prices, high input costs, weather, taxes, personnel and other concerns, farmers and ranchers face a myriad of stresses in their lives – and free resources are available to help get through those tough times.

The initiative will encompass a current intervention program being run by the Joliet Fire Department, according to Will County Board Member Vince Logan.

The City of Geneva, in collaboration with Geneva Community Unit School District 304, Geneva Park District, and Geneva Public Library District, launched the second annual “You Matter” campaign to raise awareness about suicide prevention this September.

Trinity Services began in 1950 when a group of parents started a school for their children, who had developmental disabilities and no options for education. By 2017, Trinity Services had become a statewide organization with 1,200 employees and a $56 million budget.

Hope Cancer Wellness Center at 1637 Plock Drive in Dixon offers a 6-week series that will provide tools to help people work through grief.

For the past six years, Manteno resident Jake Smith has been walking with purpose.

The TALK-LINE interview for Sept. 10 featured Kreider Services Florissa Center clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Gumbiner discussing the role the Florissa Center plays in providing assistance to children with developmental, behavioral, learning, social, and emotional needs.

Millions of Americans are impacted by substance use disorders, mental illnesses and suicide each year.

The study in the medical journal Psychiatric Services, published Tuesday by the American Psychiatric Association, found a need for “further refinement” in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude

A Joliet man was sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was convicted of the 2019 first-degree murder of his grandmother by setting her home on fire. 

DuPage County'a new Crisis Recovery Center will be available around the clock on the county health department campus and serve as an alternative to hospital emergency departments or law enforcement intervention.

In a light-filled studio just off Dixon’s First Street, therapy does not always start with talking; sometimes, it begins with the stroke of a paintbrush.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness will host an informational booth Monday at the DeKalb Public Library.

Screenings would begin at public schools in the 2027-28 school year

The Will County Community Health Center has announced newly expanded services in Bolingbrook, including primary medical care for patients 5 years and older.

Justus McNair, 19, is the founder of the Joliet-based Justus League Hoop Inc., which supports mental health in student-athletes.

In May, the Grundy County Board voted down a icensed counselor’s application for an in-patient drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Coal City. The day after, the County Board of Health voted to shutter a mental health services unit.

The Helen Wheeler Center for Community Health is set to begin a merger with Rincon Family Services.

The Grundy County Health Department stopped providing its in-house behavioral health services in mid-June.

In observance of PTSD Awareness Day, 13 volunteers, including veterans, jumped out of a perfectly good airplane Friday, June 27, 2025, at the Chicagoland Skydiving Center in Rochelle.

Nicasa Behavioral Health Service is being joined by community stakeholders, recovery advocates and allies, and more to celebrate its 35th annual golf outing – Long Drives Save Lives – on June 23 at Glen Flora Country Club, 2200 N. Sheridan Road, Waukegan.

Sinnissippi Centers’ Byron office is a full-service location offering outpatient treatment for mental illness and substance use.

100+ Women Who Care of Will County has made their last big check presentation of their 2024-2025 giving year, presenting over $9,000 to Legacy Ranch in Lockport.

Read the transcript from our TALK-LINE interview for May 14 which featured Lutheran Social Services of Illinois Representatives Kelsey Kant and Danielle Horst

The TALK-LINE interview for May 14 featured Lutheran Social Services of Illinois Representatives Kelsey Kant and Danielle Horst discussing an upcoming free presentation Thursday June 12 at the Dixon Elks Club featuring Kevin Polky, founder of “Shatter Our Silence.”

the National Alliance on Mental Illness of McHenry County seeks to educate and eliminate stigma associated with tardive dyskinesia, or TD

A group of social workers, teachers and coaches at Sycamore High School has come together to form a coalition to support student athletes’ health, both body and mind.

The state of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Public Health created the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership as part of the Children’s Mental Health Act in 2003.

Read the transcript from our April 30 Talk-Line interview with Shaw Local News representatives Charlene Bielema and Brandon Clark discussing organized protests in Rock Falls/Sterling and more.

The Talk-Line interview for April 30 featured Shaw Local News representatives Charlene Bielema and Brandon Clark discussing the area’s top news stories, including Mental Health Awareness Month spotlighted in May and the connecting story of a mental health incident in Sterling.

Nick Giannasi, president and chief executive officer of of Unbroken Family Counseling will discuss “Lonely at the Top: The Science of Decision Making” at HopScotch and Vine located at 24047 W. Lockport St. in Plainfield.

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration would like everyone to know that it is “OK to not be OK.” 

This May, during National Mental Health Awareness Month, Lauren Sharp will dedicate 10 percent of all of her sales to the National Alliance on Mental Illness of McHenry County.

Sign up for the June 14 Florissa Family 5K to support the pediatric developmental center, which provides developmental services for children.

Therapists are Uniquely You in New Lenox understood the broad range of support neurodivergent people need in their daily lives.

In the state fiscal year that ended in June, Illinois received over $20 billion in federal Medicaid funding, which made up about 62% of the total funding for Medicaid programs in Illinois, according to HFS

The Generations, a Chicago-based band founded by musician and philanthropist Rob Stepen, will host a charity performance at Sideouts Sports Tavern in Island Lake on Friday, March 28, to benefit a local chapter of NAMI.

Trinity Service bought the community health center building at 2000 Glenwood Ave. in Joliet approximately 18 months ago and has since consolidated many of its mental health-related services in that building.

The theme of the panel at the event in Joliet is “Take Control of Your Health” and panelists will discuss women’s wellness, perimenopause/menopause, aging and mental health,

In the years since Stefania’s 2022 death from mental illness at age 28, her mother, Xristina Rahn, has worked to put a more complex, nuanced and hopeful message into a place where she says teens need it most — their schools.

Listen to the Walls 102 interview with Tyler Phillips and Sarah Jones of Illinois Valley Recovery, a non-profit created in 2024 to help the community with addiction and substance abuse

Clearbrook, one of the largest Illinois nonprofit organizations for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, on Jan. 29 hosted a ceremonial ribbon cutting and open house at its new Community Mental Health Center in Libertyville.

Joliet community mental health program leads to 50% decline overall in suicides, no teenage suicides in past two years

Between 2012 and 2018, there was a 34.6% increase in the occurrence of mental health diagnoses among children ages 4 to 17, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Communication is vital while developing farm transition plans.