On average, “40 or more acutely mentally ill inmates” are booked in L.A. County every day. The new Jail Inpatient Unit at the ...

Explore how San Francisco needs extra funding from the State of California to implement its proposed Community Assistance, ...

To the editor: Undeniably, L.A. County is between a rock and hard place when caring for our foster youth with acute mental health needs ... and eliminating so many group home beds would only ...

Health worker wages, homeless kids, the debt bill, transgender health, urgent care, weight-loss drugs, and more are in the ...

If severe mental illness, untreated, underlies the feeling of encroaching anarchy and menace around the homeless encampments ...

A new, specialized license plate would provide millions of dollars in extra funding for mental health programs in California public schools, under a bill recently introduced in the state Senate.

Speaking at McLane High School, Newsom said the goal for California’s Master Plan for Kids’ Mental Health is to train 40,000 more behavioral health professionals over the next few years, and establish ...

The shortage can be traced in large part to a landmark law signed in 2015, according to child welfare advocates, some of whom ...

A Trident behavioral health hospital opening in Berkeley County will be the first in the Lowcountry in 30 years. The lack of ...

Darrell Steinberg is retiring from politics — at least for now — after more than three decades of election wins.

Hospitals and health systems are playing an increasingly important role in providing behavioral health care, whether in their ...

On this episode, I talk with Jesse Tamplen, vice president of behavioral health services at John Muir Health, located east of ...