Addiction and homelessness are a constant presence in L.A.'s mental health court. Its judge wants defendants to "feel like someone who's deep in the system of power cares about them." ...

That’s twice as many as any other state, signaling to mental health advocates that the service was badly needed. Now, California crisis ... Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

On March 24, the California Department of Health Care Services, which oversees the state’s Medicaid program, received termination letters from the federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Services ...

Steinberg mediated a similar open-ended strike for Northern California Kaiser mental health care workers in 2022 ... The ...

A federal housing complaint over a support animal set off a chain reaction in Napa County, exposing gaps in the mental health ...

California relies on federal grants for suicide prevention and addiction care. Proposed cuts put lifesaving programs like 988 ...

News of this review comes just days after three of Tulsa’s largest mental health care providers had their state contracts terminated. Also on Monday, the Department of Mental Health and ...

Senate Bill 43, which took effect earlier this year, expands the definition of “grave disability” in California’s mental health law. It allows individuals with severe substance use disorders ...

Steinberg mediated a similar open-ended strike for Northern California Kaiser mental health care ... recent 88-page report from the state Department of Managed Health Care, which notes that ...