Mental Health

Housing costs have forced many board-and-care homes to shutter. Mental health advocates say the closures will exacerbate the homeless crisis in California.

Californians with mental illness—and their family members—describe pleading with insurance providers for the treatment they need.

In the past five years, the number of people in California deemed incompetent to stand trial and referred by a judge to state hospitals for treatment has soared—but there are nowhere near enough psychiatric beds to accommodate them.