An insufficient mental health care system pushes some families to give up custody of their children for care. States look for better solutions.

Author Archives: Christine Herman
Christine Herman is the managing editor of Side Effects Public Media, a health reporting collaboration based at WFYI involving NPR stations across the Midwest. In her recent role as health reporter at Illinois Public Media, she reported extensively on mental health and was a 2018 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry and master's in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.