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Category: Breakdown: Mental Health

Mark Rippee, who developed schizophrenia after a traumatic brain injury, has been living on the streets for years
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

“We’ve lost our compass.” For California’s most visible mentally ill, is a return to forced treatment a solution — or a false promise?

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener December 30, 2019September 17, 2020
Dozens of mental healthcare workers picket outside of Sacramento Medical Center to protest long wait times for patients and overwhelming case-loads at Kaiser Permanente facilities. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

Mental health care outcry targets Kaiser — and state regulators

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener December 18, 2019September 17, 2020
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

Californians aren’t getting the mental health care they’re legally guaranteed. Why not?

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener December 8, 2019September 17, 2020
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

Watch: How California’s mental health system fails people, families

Byrhonda Lyons by Byrhonda Lyons August 8, 2019August 9, 2019
Brighid FitzGibbon holds her son Evan, with daughter Claire at home in Sebastopol. Photo by Penni Gladstone for CALmatters
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

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

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener June 23, 2019July 12, 2019
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

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

Avatar by Ben Christopher May 20, 2019July 16, 2019
Posted inExplainers

Breakdown: California’s mental health system, explained

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener April 30, 2019September 17, 2020
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

Breakdown: California’s mental health system, explained

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener April 30, 2019July 30, 2020
Resident Concepcion Wedell makes her way to the kitchen while walking past Setsuko Letchford in the living room at Palarca's Rest Home in San Francisco. Photos by Jessica Christian, San Francisco Chronicle
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

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

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener April 15, 2019September 17, 2020
In her daughter's room, Seong Brown adjusts rose petals atop the clothing she wore when she died. Photo by Penni Gladstone for CALmatters
Posted inBreakdown: Mental Health

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

Avatar by Jocelyn Wiener March 10, 2019September 17, 2020

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