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Columbia Mayor Daniel Rickenmann has long hoped to build a $30 million homeless center. But community leaders and elected officials in North Columbia arent on board.

The South Carolina chapter of the NAACP claims that the state Department of Mental Health has discriminated against Black employees by recent changes.

The Horry County woman worked for the SC Department of Mental Health and alleges that her supervisors ordered her to illegally fire certain employees.

Advocates for those with severe mental illness say they expect a federal lawsuit that could prompt long-sought changes to SC’s mental health care system.

Dr. Kenneth Rogers, South Carolina's Department of Mental Health, is giving up the post he's held for two years, officials said.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The director of South Carolina's Department of Mental Health is giving up the post he's held for two years, officials said. Dr. Kenneth Rogers, a psychiatrist hired to run the agency in April 2020, announced last Thursday at an executive session of a meeting of the Mental health Commission that he would be leaving the department effective Nov.

State officials and advocacy groups in South Carolina and Michigan don’t see privatizing mental health services as an ...