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Vista del Mar Hospital must stop admitting involuntary patients due to repeated failures
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA private Ventura hospital can no longer treat involuntary psychiatric patients under a suspension...
CARE Court will change how California addresses serious, untreated mental illness. Here's how
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA homeless veteran walks along Veterans Row in West Los Angeles on Oct. 30, 2021. (Genaro Molina/Los...
Newsom wants to resolve California’s long debate over mental health
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAfter California became a state in 1850, one of its first acts was to establish the Insane Asylum of...
CARE courts open in a month, promising hope for families. Not everyone is so sure
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNan Ibarra, whose two sons have schizoaffective disorder, is among those expressing concern about...
California law addressing mental illness among homeless delayed by Valley counties
The Stockton Record via Yahoo News· 5 months agoHistoric changes to California’s conservatorship law, which will expand who can be placed in...
Legislators propose changes to California's conservatorship law
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLawmakers in the past have seen their attempts to amend the landmark 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short Act...
County lifts Ventura psychiatric hospital's suspension conditionally. Here's what it means
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA Ventura psychiatric hospital would regain its authority to admit involuntary patients but with...
Fresno mother lost her son due to his mental illness. Now she helps others avoid same fate
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoMy son was a wonderful boy. He was bright, funny, kind and loving. I wish you could know him the way...
State to monitor suspended admissions at private Ventura psychiatric hospital Vista del Mar
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 7 months agoInvoluntary admissions of psychiatric patients at a Ventura hospital were suspended this week in the...
Opinion: California wants more psychiatric detentions. That's unlikely to improve anyone's mental...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe state senate is considering a bill to detain more people with mental illness, based on the...