COURTS ARE NOW ACROSS ALL OF CALIFORNIA. ITS PURPOSE IS TO CONNECT MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES TO PEOPLE ... POWER THAT WOULD FORCE THEM INTO A MENTAL HOSPITAL. THIS IS ALL ABOUT GETTING THEM THE ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Health care giant Kaiser Permanente — already facing a strike next week over claims of failing to address gaps in mental health care and staffing for patients — has drawn the ...

This local university has developed the academic facilities to enhance employment opportunities for students and ...

The county will have a new call center for people needing help with both mental health and substance abuse issues.

The county introduces its new Behavioral Health Services-Screening and Coordination Call Center and implementation of Senate Bill 43.

Veteran California public servant Will Lightbourne has stepped in as interim executive director of the state’s mental health commission after its previous executive director resigned following ...

It's part of a program designed as an alternative to nursing home care for people who want to remain in their communities, ...

Sacramento plans to file petitions on behalf of at least three people in the coming weeks who city officials believe can benefit from a recently-expanded state mental health program. That announcement ...

Dr. Ryan Quist is the Sacramento County behavioral health director. He's now in charge of expanding the county's criteria for involuntary detention and treatment to include patients with severe ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if ...

They refused. As a 16-year old Muslim girl, it was one of many moments she felt disempowered in her nine-month stay in a mental health hospital. It was not the first time Afeefa had been admitted as a ...