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 ...

The loss of just one health care bed is bad enough in this time of mental health care shortages. But Cascade’s closing means ...

Newsom's plan to overhaul how California treats mental illness is giving thousands of affected and frustrated families 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 ...

Chief Kelly Gordon aims to expand her department’s powers in dealing with people experiencing severe mental-health crises.

If severe mental illness, untreated, underlies the feeling of encroaching anarchy and menace around the homeless encampments ...

Drug use has become a major public health crisis, but effective treatment remains hard to find. It does exist though.

The shortage can be traced in large part to a landmark law signed in 2015, according to child welfare advocates, some of whom ...

Policymakers and activists are questioning if jails and prisons are equipped to adequately care for those with mental illness ...

Darrell Steinberg is retiring from politics — at least for now — after more than three decades of election wins.