Breakdown: Mental Health

Brighid FitzGibbon holds her son Evan, with daughter Claire at home in Sebastopol. Photo by Penni Gladstone for CALmatters

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Treatment for psychosis—and other mental illness—differs drastically by county

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“If you think the system works, you’re dead wrong:” a discussion on mental health in California

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Breakdown: California’s mental health system, explained

Jocelyn Wiener

Breakdown: California’s mental health system, explained

Overlooked mental health “catastrophe:” Vanishing board-and-care-homes leave residents with few options

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Overlooked mental health “catastrophe:” Vanishing board-and-care-homes leave residents with few options

For families across California, a desperate struggle to get mental health care

Jocelyn Wiener

For families across California, a desperate struggle to get mental health care

All too often, California’s default mental institutions are now jails and prisons

Jocelyn Wiener

All too often, California’s default mental institutions are now jails and prisons