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

时事通讯

Homelessness, vaping, potholes and kicks for a governor

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Dan Morain

• 5 月 20, 2019

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国会大厦

In housing, privacy and more, a Capitol lightning round nixes controversial bills

Some of the most controversial ideas California lawmakers were considering this year were set aside as the Legislature culled hundreds of bills in a fast-and-furious annual procedural ritual.

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劳雷尔·罗森霍尔

• 5 月 16, 2019

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Tax breaks for parents, toxic jewelry, and a suicide barrier

Newsom provides tax breaks for parents, counties could lose health care dollars under plan for the undocumented, Becerra goes after toxic jewelry

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Dan Morain

• 5 月 8, 2019

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Sex abuse cover-ups, rent control re-do, and an assemblyman goes on trial

Becerra targets Catholic dioceses, legislation would expand sex abuse victims' right to sue, assemblyman stands trial on child abuse charges

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Dan Morain

• 5 月 6, 2019

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Newsom’s response to synagogue shooting, aging baby boomers, and mental health care

Newsom earmarks money for security at houses of worship and promises more mental health care funding, UCSF Medical Centrer weighs controversial partnership

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Dan Morain

• 4 月 30, 2019

The best way to help our homeless neighbors is to find them shelter ASAP

While the housing first model does not require sobriety, it clearly encourages sobriety. It has been shown that people who voluntarily sign up for supportive services are more likely to discontinue substance use, participate in job training programs, and attend school.

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嘉宾评论

• 4 月 25, 2019

To help people with mental illness, keep them in school

Early diagnosis and intervention is essential to attaining better outcomes for mental illness. But in the struggle to help people with mental illness cope, a powerful long term tool has been overlooked: school. Education has an outsized impact on the prospects for people with serious mental disorders.

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嘉宾评论

• 4 月 17, 2019

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Newsom faces first test, board-and-care crisis, a downward spiral ends

Newsom faces test over wildfire proposals, board-and-care homes for the mentally ill are disappearing, conservative politician Mike Spence's downward spiral ends

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Dan Morain

• 4 月 15, 2019

Mental illness implications of cannabis use must not be ignored

Backers of cannabis legalization–and their supporters in the media–have successfully cast marijuana legalization as a racial and social justice issue, although almost no one is in prison for cannabis possession. And they have vastly oversold the potential medical benefits of the drug, while understating its risks.

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嘉宾评论

• 4 月 14, 2019

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Defending Obamacare, protecting birds, treating psychiatric emergencies

State takes on Trump administration over Obamacare, migratory birds, hospital respond to spike in mental emergencies, homeless college students need help

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Dan Morain

• 3 月 26, 2019