But recent federal funding and staffing cuts undermine the future of the 988 program and threaten to erase progress made in ...

Michael Schrader, chief executive of the Central California Alliance for Health, the local Medicaid plan for people in Merced ...

It’s not that all of California’s behavioral health policies are explicitly tied to Medicaid, but many state and local mental ...

It’s not that all of California’s behavioral health policies are explicitly tied to Medicaid, but many state and local mental health programs draw funding from it. Less Medicaid money means ...

provide mental health services, and support addiction treatment and other urgent health issues. It is unclear how much funding was pulled from California, but a $37-million grant from CDC in 2022 ...

After the federal government announced it was suspending $11.4 billion in funding allocated ... cuts also targeted mental health-related grants, which would have cost the California Department ...

A federal judge in Rhode Island says she'll temporarily block the Trump administration from cutting billions in federal ...

California may lose more than $1 billion in public health and mental health funding as a result of new federal budget cuts that target COVID-19 pandemic response grants, according to the U.S ...

Attorneys general from California and 22 other states ... The money also went to addiction and mental health programs. “Slashing this funding now will reverse our progress on the opioid crisis ...

By Angela Hart for KFF Health News. Broadcast version by Suzanne Potter for California News Service reporting for the KFF ...