Mental Illness

Missoula’s City Club monthly meeting focused on the sensitive subject of suicide, entitled 'Help and Hope: Missoula’s Collective Approach to Preventing Suicide'.

The Missoula Police Department will continue to take steps forward to engage with people in crises in the downtown area.

All this week at the National Guard Armory, first responders have been participating in Crisis Intervention Training to help them hone their skills by simulating difficult situations that may involve persons suffering from mental illness or substance disorders.

Elsie Arntzen and musician Jason DeShaw will be in Hamilton High School tomorrow to discuss the topics of mental illness and suicide.

Early numbers aren’t promising for 2018. Dr. Will Stratford of Missoula says he knows of 11 suicides that occurred during just one week so far this year.

A 50 year-old Nevada man is being held in the Missoula County Jail on a $1.5 million fugitive warrant out of Elko, Nevada on nine counts of sexual abuse of children.

The National Stepping Up Summit provides a platform for local county leaders to work towards reducing the number of people with mental illnesses in jails.

This week's Health Talk brings us a hospitalist at Providence Psychiatry Dr. Robert Munjal. Dr. Munjal was born and raised in the Mid-Atlantic region.  After completing undergraduate studies at the College of William and Mary, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and then went onto medical school at the University of Virginia...

An Indiana man who admitted fatally stabbing and shooting a fellow Purdue University student inside a crowded classroom has been sentenced to 65 years in prison after telling a judge he lied about being mentally ill.

People in Missoula will have the opportunity to learn what it's like to live with mental illness at a meeting Thursday, February 27 at Missoula Alliance Church.