Someone does not have to actively be in crisis to seek mental health treatment. The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice says it's always a conversation worth having.
More and more kids are experiencing what is being called the "pandemic wall," or cognitive overload, more than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began.
"It was just me and the thoughts, and I had nothing to distract me from it. That was really, really hard," Essex County resident Renee Audrey told New Jersey 101.5.
Police Officers in Toms River were able to diffuse a stressful situation and prevent a suicide by cop shooting along James Street and Lewis Avenue early Sunday morning.