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

Despite the distancing, making a connection this holiday could save a life

As we experience the holidays in the time of COVID-19, let’s keep the most vulnerable in mind and remember that suicide is preventable.

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嘉宾评论

• 11 月 25, 2020

Patients at the Central Coast’s Atascadero State Hospital walk the halls in 2006. Due to COVID, patients have at times been confined to their units, but still mingle in bathrooms, the dining hall and common day rooms. Of the state’s psychiatric hospitals, Atascadero houses the largest number of mentally ill inmates from state prisons. Photo by Peggy Peattie, ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

新冠病毒

Could California’s psych hospitals be ordered to admit inmates with COVID?

The Department of State Hospitals is facing pressure in federal court to speed up admissions of mentally ill inmates from the COVID-riddled state prison system.

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Lee Romney

• 11 月 18, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the reparations bill over Zoom on Sept 30, 2020. Screenshot via youtube

重要的事情

Reparations study, police reform coming to CA

Good morning, California. It’s Thursday, October 1. Newsom signs high-profile bills As historic protests against police brutality and racism continue to sweep across California and the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed into law a spate of racial and criminal justice legislation and several police reform bills — though the most ambitious police proposals […]

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Emily Hoeven

• 10 月 1, 2020

Portrait of Celinda Gonzales in Weitchpec on Sep. 17. Gonzales looks off over the Klamath River towards a large rock her son Paul Moreno used to jump off into the water. The rock’s height, she said, deterred Moreno’s friends, but he was a thrill seeker and enjoyed the challenge. Photo by Alexandra Hootnick for CalMatters.

Mental Health

Mental health ‘tsunami’ looms: Can California prevent a surge in suicides?

Humboldt County, tucked into the redwoods on the state’s far North Coast, also has a much higher suicide rate than most of California. The pandemic has fueled new concerns.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 9 月 30, 2020

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announces an executive order requiring all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035, a move the governor says would achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, at a press conference on Sept. 23, 2020, at Cal Expo in Sacramento. Photo by Daniel Kim, The Sacramento Bee via AP/Pool

重要的事情

Newsom’s fast-approaching deadline

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, September 28. Controversial bills remain Gov. Gavin Newsom has just three days left to sign or veto some of the most high-profile and controversial bills of the legislative session — including a spate of proposals to police the police, a bill that would establish a state reparations committee, and a […]

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Emily Hoeven

• 9 月 28, 2020

Peter Murphy, an outreach manager for the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, struggled to find people who could support him with his mental health issues before joining the organization. He says peer support gives people a chance to be heard and understood. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

健康

‘I was looking for someone like me’ – Is peer counseling the answer?

A bill headed to the governor would certify ‘peer providers,’ with their own histories of mental illness, to help Californians with similar challenges. While 48 states certify peer counselors, California does not.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 9 月 8, 2020

国会大厦

We need to train and certify more peer supporters to save lives, I should know

Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for expanding the role of peer providers in mental health services; he now has the opportunity to sign SB 803 into law.

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嘉宾评论

• 9 月 5, 2020

重要的事情

Last chance to avoid evicting renters

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, August 31. Legislative session ends today The fate of hundreds of thousands of California renters teetering on the brink of eviction — and of the landlords who depend on their rent payments — hangs in the balance of a cliffhanger vote lawmakers will take today. Their vote on a controversial […]

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Emily Hoeven

• 8 月 31, 2020

It’s time to reopen health clubs and gyms

When it comes to concerns about COVID-19 in health clubs, initial research suggests these are far outweighed by the benefits of physical activity.

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嘉宾评论

• 8 月 31, 2020

健康

California poised to become national leader on mental health and addiction coverage

A bill that is expected to clear the Legislature this week would significantly expand what treatments are considered medically necessary for health insurance coverage.

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乔斯琳·维纳

• 8 月 27, 2020