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The Young and Uncared For
Curious about the complexities of mental health care and the dark side of #selfcare ? Check out this informative article by Shayla Love,...
Shayla Love (Vice)
Dec 11, 20181 min read
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California Wildfires Disaster Distress Helpline
The Disaster Distress Helpline (DDH) provides crisis counseling and support for anyone in the U.S. experiencing distress or other...
Mental Health America
Nov 14, 20181 min read
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The NRA wants us to talk about mental health over guns. Here's why it's wrong.
In the wake of almost every mass shooting — a term which, by now, has become so familiar as to feel almost disconnected from the vicious...
Elizabeth Bruenig
Nov 9, 20181 min read
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MHA Statement on Thousand Oaks Shooting
"This morning, we were awakened to the horror of yet another mass shooting – this time at a nightclub in southern California. It is hard...
Paul Gionfriddo, president and CEO
Nov 8, 20182 min read
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The State of Mental Health in America
Mental Health America is committed to promoting mental health as a critical part of overall wellness. We advocate for prevention services...
Mental Health America
Oct 31, 20181 min read
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‘I’m done hiding this’: Jason Kander pulls out of mayor’s race, citing PTSD and depression
Jason Kander, a former Army intelligence officer who is considered a rising star of the Democratic Party, announced Tuesday that he was...
Eli Rosenberg
Oct 4, 20181 min read
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Two mental-health patients in sheriff's van drown in S.C. floodwaters
Two women drowned in the back of a sheriff’s van Tuesday when deputies tried to drive down a South Carolina road flooded by tropical...
Avi Selk
Sep 20, 20181 min read
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CalMHSA is Hiring!
CalMHSA is looking for a Statewide Technology Project Peer and Community Engagement Manager. To view the Position Profile, click HERE. To...
dalarcon8
Sep 7, 20181 min read
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Medicaid expansion's private option is nearly gone
Comments close soon on New Hampshire’s new Medicaid waiver application. The Granite State is one of several states to already have a work...
Dylan Scott
Sep 6, 20181 min read
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New Google-Backed Plan To Spend California’s Mental Health Dollars Is Raising Eyebrows
Depending on who you ask, innovation is either an exciting word — or a suspicious one. So goes the debate over whether California...
Sammy Caiola
Aug 15, 20181 min read
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Rising suicides in Mexico expose the mental health toll of living with extreme chronic violence
Mexico has suffered one of the world’s highest murder rates for over a decade, a consequence of the government’s aggressive, 12-year-long...
Cecilia Farfan-Mendez
Aug 2, 20181 min read
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'Like a busy emergency room': Calls to suicide crisis centers double since 2014
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saw calls double from 2014 to 2017, an increase that coincides with rising suicide rates in the...
Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY
Jul 20, 20181 min read
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Parents who had severe trauma, stresses in childhood more likely to have kids with behavioral health
A new study finds that severe childhood trauma and stresses early in parents' lives are linked to higher rates of behavioral health...
University of California - Los Angeles Health
Jul 11, 20181 min read
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"It's OK to not be OK"... A conversation about Suicide with Survivors
Suicide is on the rise in the U.S. This month's deaths of designer Kate Spade and chef Anthony Bourdain gave a new urgency to suicide...
Gayle King- CBS
Jun 26, 20181 min read
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U.N. Special Report on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights failures in the United States
Global rankings place the United States near the top in wealth, power, and technological innovation; however, that fails to translate to...
Philip Alston
Jun 25, 20182 min read
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Why Separating Families at the Border is a Recipe for a Mental Health Disaster
As terrified children, ripped from the arms of their asylum-seeking parents, shiver and cry in prison-like detention centers on the...
ERIN MAGNER
Jun 25, 20181 min read
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NYC Hospitals Are Treating Children Separated From Parents at Border for Mental Illness
The Trump administration used the welfare of other people’s children as a deterrent, a bargaining chip in an immigration policy debate,...
ELLIOT HANNON
Jun 22, 20181 min read
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MHA Joins Leading Nonprofits to Condemn Border Atrocities
"Today, I joined nonprofit colleagues from around the nation in condemning the horrifying actions being taken by our government to...
Paul Gionfriddo, president and CEO
Jun 19, 20182 min read
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In the Face of Yet Another Tragedy
"We were shocked today by the death of Anthony Bourdain, the second public figure this week to die by suicide. And, as Kate Spade’s...
Paul Gionfriddo, MHA president and CEO
Jun 12, 20182 min read
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Disability Rights California (DRC) Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
NorCAL MHA joins Disability Rights California (DRC), in celebrating its 40th Anniversary. For 40 years, DRC has advanced and protected...
dalarcon8
May 14, 20181 min read
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