The close contest over Gov. Gavin Newsom's $6.4-billion bond measure to transform California's mental health system finally ended Wednesday, more than two weeks after the primary election. Though election officials have until April 12 to officially certify the results, Proposition 1 led with 50.2% of the vote when the race was called with more than 7.5 million ballots counted statewide. “This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness, and a victory for doing things...
Cygnet Hospital Sheffield is a 55-bed hospital which offers a low secure service for women and CAMHS services for male and female adolescents over three distinct wards. I was admitted to Cygnet Sheffield, Spencer Ward in October 2022. It took me nearly three months to engage with the Occupational Therapy (OT) team, I ignored their initial attempts to get me involved in meaningful activities. At previous services prior to Cygnet, others would always try and get me to do things that I didn’t want...
Candice and Kenneth Meisgeier, who call the northeastern Iowa city of Oelwein home, know the state’s mental health care system like the back of their hand, with three of their four children having high-functioning autism. Her oldest son, who is now 15 years old, was 4 years old when his parents noticed behavioral and developmental
Bill Maher has had it up to HERE with lots of people who have self-diagnosed themselves with mental health issues when they actually have none. The 'Real Time' host says lots of people have confused depression and other mental health issues with…
The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust had been facing an £8.8million deficit this year, but has reduced that deficit to £800,000.
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Governor Gavin Newsom and politicians in Sacramento may still have a long way to go to conquering California’s budget deficit, but they now finally have the go-ahead from voters to get $6.4 billion to revamp the state’s busted mental health system and combat homelessness. Almost two weeks after Golden State voters went to the polls […]
Following weeks of troubling social media posts, boxer Ryan Garcia says he will sue the New York State Athletic Commission for threatening to give him mental health evaluation.
The Center for Special Needs Trust Administration in Tampa, Florida is accused of losing over $100 million intended for hundreds of disabled children. Its founders allegedly loaned themselves the funds and didn't return them. One family said they alerted the FBI about the stolen money over a decade ago
Hundreds of families were devastated after a special needs nonprofit in Florida lost over $100 million held in trust funds for their disabled children. The Tampa-based Center for Special Needs Trust Administration (CSNTA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month, two years after the company's leadership discovered that staggering assets used to support disabled children had vanished.According to the filing, the center discovered that its founders had borrowed millions over an 11-year period...
By Mahtab Javed Siddiqui, Mental Health Unit, South Asian Network, Artesia, CA As a child, I watched my mother meticulously prepare a paste of turmeric and black pepper over a hot flame. The sizzle of the paste and the aromatic scent of turmeric were overcome […]