Stories from the front lines of Iowa’s mental health crisis
May 23, 2017On April 16, I wrote an essay for the Register about the deaths of my neighbors — Mark, Charla, and Tawni Nicholson — and about their mentally ill son/brother Chase, who has been charged with murder in their deaths. I wrote the essay simply to express my sadness and anger over this family’s struggle to get Chase help in the dysfunctional Iowa mental health system. But in the days that followed, the response from readers across the state Read More