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CARE courts open in a month, promising hope for families. Not everyone is so sure
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoNan Ibarra, whose two sons have schizoaffective disorder, is among those expressing concern about...
Why California's much-touted CARE Court is 'no one-and-done program'
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoThe CARE Act — like other attempts to legislate treatment for severe mental illness in California —...
Column: A half-century after failing to reform mental health care, California tries again
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThere's a bipartisan attempt in the California Legislature to finally finish the mental health...
Stanislaus County supervisors vote to delay implementing controversial mental health bill
Modesto Bee via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoStanislaus County leaders are delaying implementation of a state law that expands the criteria for...
A failing mental health system leaves this mother pleading: Keep him in jail
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoAs she watched her son's mental health deteriorate, Deborah Smith pleaded to petition for...
SLO County mental health care system struggles with staff, infrastructure, new report says
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoSan Luis Obispo County’s mental health care system has persistent problems with staffing and...
L.A. County delays implementation of new criteria for gravely disabled
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoBoard of Supervisors Chair Lindsey P. Horvath cited "the immense amount of work" required to...
'Against their will': A proposed law would make it easier to detain people with mental illness
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe latest effort to overhaul the LPS Act — California's landmark mental health legislation —...
Meadowbrook and L.A.'s long and conflicted relationship with mental illness
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoA mental institution in Mar Vista, built originally as a developer's home, spans the modern history...
California lawmakers approve key changes to landmark mental health law
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoSenate Bill 43 expands the criteria for the detention, treatment and conservatorship to address the...