54+ min ago   (669+ words) The Elgin Township 708 Mental Health Board is providing $437,000 for a pilot program to provide preventive measures and early intervention care at five schools in School District U-46. “This all started with a meeting I had with U-46 Superintendent Suzanne Johnson and…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (595+ words) OAKLAND, Calif. — Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday. California,…...

1+ week, 19+ min ago   (664+ words) Thousands of dollars in Dundee Township 708 Mental Health Board grant money, held up by an impasse over the board’s composition, were finally released Thursday night. For the first time since January, the board had enough appointed members to allow business…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (828+ words) Naperville Police Department’s full-time Mobile Crisis Intervention Team, designed to better address the hundreds of mental health-related calls received every year, is up and running. The department had been operating a hybrid version of the crisis intervention team since 2021, the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (892+ words) For most of their lives, Laura and Nichole Yunger were rarely apart. They were two-thirds of a set of triplets in a Naperville family who also had a younger set of triplets, something that made for an unusual childhood and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (715+ words) CHICAGO — Meta insists it has a long history of protecting its youngest customers as it defends itself against a swath of lawsuits alleging its social media empire harms children. In the latest such instance, the social media giant is fighting…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (537+ words) Dundee Township officials have reached a compromise to resolve an eight-month impasse on the 708 Mental Health Board that prevented $800,000 in grant money from being released to mental health providers. Under the terms, Trustee Sue Harney has agreed to resign as…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (915+ words) Though it’s been in operation less than a year, Wilmette Police Chief Michael Robinson is hailing the “real positive impact” of the department’s co-responder program. The program pairs a social worker with a police officer to handle mental health, domestic…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (605+ words) BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy was “begging for help” in the months leading up to killing her three children and attempting to end her own life, Clancy’s former mother-in-law testified for the defense Tuesday in the fourth week of her murder trial....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (667+ words) That’s the message that playwright Denise Jones shares in her prize-winning play, “Beyond the Door.” Jones is definitely an example of that. After struggling with addiction, incarceration and trauma, the Lansing resident, who grew up on Chicago’s West Side, turned…...