The state's major overhaul of its mental health and disability service systems is going into effect. Officials say they hope ...

Iowa is launching a new system to make mental health and substance use care more accessible, KCCI reports. A law aimed at restructuring the state’s mental health, substance use, and disability ...

Starting Tuesday, mental health and substance use disorder services are being combined into seven behavioral health districts.The transition involves moving from regional to district-based eligibility ...

Vera French CEO Rich Whitaker is concerned about dovetailing impacts of the state mental health system's new, lower rates, ...

MENTAL HEALTH REGIONS: The state Department of Human Services has completed the regions by which Iowa’s 99 counties will deliver mental health services. The Legislature and Gov. Terry Branstad ...

For the second time in 12 years, Iowa's mental health system is undergoing an overhaul. Advocates of the change hope it will improve access to services and better coordination of care, by combining ...