Posts Tagged: CARE Courts

Big Problem: California’s Behavioral Health Worker Shortage

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by CAPITOL WEEKLY STAFF posted 02.27.2023

CAPITOL WEEKLY  PODCAST: We’re joined today by Dr. Janet Coffman of Healthforce Center at UCSF, and Michelle Doty Cabrera, Executive Director of CBHDA. They describe the serious challenges facing the state’s mental health and substance abuse programs, and what is needed to grow and retain a behavioral health workforce that reflects California’s diverse populations.

Crisis Intervention Teams have advantages over CARE courts

Depressed and alone, a young woman sits beside the ocean. (Photo: PKpix, via Shutterstock)

by DAVID K. ASLANIAN posted 09.30.2022

OPINION: Debates about the Governor’s CARE Courts program have raged across the state in recent months. A major point of contention is whether Californians with mental health challenges will be helped or hurt by being pushed into the legal system.

A matter of life or death: California needs a homelessness strategy

A homeless man asleep on the street in San Francisco. (Photo: Izzy Bouchard, via Shutterstock)

by GRAHAM KNAUS posted 06.14.2022

OPINION: Nearly 5,000 unhoused Californians died in 2021, many of them drawing their last breaths alone on our streets. California, which boasts the fifth largest economy in the world, cannot continue to let our neighbors die in public; it’s time for something different.