Mental Health

CalMatters and CatchLight are partnering on a three-year initiative to tell powerful stories about mental health in California. We’ll spotlight solutions, personal stories, investigate systems, and bring greater awareness to this historically stigmatized topic. This initiative is supported by:

Enlight Foundation
加州医疗保健基金会
Flourish Impact Fund
Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Foundation
Resonance Philanthropies
Sarlo Family Foundation
Sand Hill Foundation
Stuart Foundation

A row of tents under an overpass in east Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2021.

重要的事情

How California fails its most vulnerable residents

Give to CalMatters today and your gift will be doubled! Your support helps keep our nonprofit journalism free and accessible to all Californians. Donate now. If the pandemic made one thing clear in California, it’s that the state often fails to protect its most vulnerable residents. That was the takeaway from an emotional eight-hour hearing […]

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Emily Hoeven

• 12 月 16, 2021

A play area at WestCoast Children’s Clinic in Oakland on Sept. 22, 2021. The clinic serves nearly 1500 children annually, many of whom are low-income. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters

健康

Stranded in the ER: Can California change its treatment of kids in crisis?

A controversial bill before Gov. Gavin Newsom would fund crisis residential treatment facilities for children on Medi-Cal, steering more kids away from hospital emergency rooms.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 9 月 27, 2021

California health officials agreed to partially fund a 988 crisis hotline for mental health. Image via iStock

健康

Call 988: California finds $20 million to help pay for new crisis hotline

After a push from advocates, California officials agreed to help fund a 988 network — a "robust statewide call center" for mental health.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 9 月 2, 2021

For many workers, work is a threat to well-being

The use of automation technologies to track and monitor safety or productivity is widespread in supply-chain management, and it is now seeping into grocery stores, other retail settings, and even knowledge work. That is bad news for workers.

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嘉宾评论

• 8 月 30, 2021

To house the homeless, California must re-imagine housing

State and local governments must change housing law and zoning rules to move toward permanently housing unsheltered Californians.

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嘉宾评论

• 8 月 27, 2021

Pandemic brings extra need for mental health care resources

Assembly Bill 638 increases funding for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders. It will help counties reach people in the early stages of illness and prevent mental health problems from worsening, and could ease the burden on family members and caretakers.

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嘉宾评论

• 8 月 26, 2021

Smaller classes benefit students most in need

Critics underestimate the importance of class size reduction because they don’t understand the challenges of our profession. Hiring teachers and other professionals to help students directly serves students.

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嘉宾评论

• 8 月 3, 2021

Britney Spears conservatorship saga is only one facet of a complex issue

Californians must change the debate about conservatorship and focus on the people and their families who are waiting for real reform. People like my son, Danny, should be the face of that reform, not Britney Spears.

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嘉宾评论

• 7 月 20, 2021

Rafael Suarez tries to restart the generator during a hot day in Los Angeles, on July 9, 2021. As part of their plans to reduce homelessness, Republican recall candidates are calling for a clean-up of the state. Photo by Pablo Unzueta for CalMatters

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¿Es la falta de vivienda el punto débil de Newsom durante el proceso de destitución? Los republicanos piensan que sí

Read this article in English. En resumen Los que proponen la destitución del gobernador de California ven a Newsom como vulnerable en este tema, pero algunos expertos y defensores dicen que sus ideas podrían empeorar la vida de las personas sin hogar. El proceso de destitución de Gavin Newsom puede haber cobrado impulso como un referéndum […]

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曼努埃拉·托比亚斯

• 7 月 16, 2021

政治

Is homelessness Newsom’s weak point in recall? Republicans are counting on it

Challengers in the California recall see Newsom as vulnerable on the issue, but some experts and advocates say their ideas could worsen life for homeless people.

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曼努埃拉·托比亚斯

• 7 月 15, 2021