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

Senate Bill 43 would strip mentally ill people of their power of self-determination by compelling them into short stints of ...

Gov. Gavin Newson’s announcement in the spring to radically reshape California’s mental health care was compelling for ...

A Santa Clara County program to help the severely mentally ill receive treatment has outpaced expectations in its first year ...

But it may be a challenge to find staff for the new program, which aims to put people suffering from mental illness on a ...

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

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 ...

Now that a hospital in Mississippi’s capital has closed its unit specializing in mental health care, experts fear a domino effect for people seeking such services ...

A bill that promises to make major changes to California’s behavioral health system is moving quickly through the State ...

Painful drug withdrawals that last longer, new mental health hurdles and lack of follow-up care are leading to missed ...