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Gov. Ige has proposed spending $7.7 million to overhaul the state DD program, which includes offering clients more opportunities for jobs and setting goals for themselves.

The measure would form a task force to find ways to make emergency mental health admissions more efficient, and better protect the public.

This kind of deeply personal storytelling, says Civil Beat reporter Brittany Lyte, can be “so intimate it’s like walking into someone’s bedroom.”

Several proposals would make it easier for families and caregivers to get court orders authorizing long-term intensive treatment and medication for the severely mentally ill.

The state Department of Health says a high percentage of schools haven’t reported the number of kindergarten students who’ve received vaccination waivers.

Its a multibillion-dollar industry, but do all those products do what they claim? Consumers have no way of knowing.

Marti Claussen’s search for stable care and housing in Hawaii for her mentally ill daughter Christie has been a long journey of impossible choices and resilience.

Amy Klobuchar, the U.S. senator from Minnesota, said she doesn’t see Medicare-for-all happening anytime soon. But she likes a Hawaii senator’s alternative.

When you get your medicine by mail order, you lose the chance to have a convenient consultation about what you’re taking.

A budding partnership between high schools and Kapiolani Community College represents another way to grow Hawaii’s health care workforce.