Mental Health Programs Providing Help To Underserved Get $13M From State
The funding from the California Department of Public Health will be released over a five-and-a-half-year period as part of the state’s California Reducing Disparities Project.
Capital Public Radio:
California Mental Health Organizations To Receive $13 Million Boost
The California Department of Public Health will award $13 million to organizations focused on serving the mental health needs of underserved communities. Grants will be given to 11 pilot projects that provide mental health services to African American, Asian and Pacific Islander, LGBTQ and Native American people. ... Funding will be released over a five and a half year period as part of the state’s California Reducing Disparities Project. The state plans to award an additional $47 million between 2016 and 2022. (Johnson, 7/18)
In other news from across the state —
The San Diego Union-Tribune:
County Approves Anti-HIV Plan
The transmission of HIV has declined dramatically since the height of the epidemic in 1990, but a plan approved by county supervisors on Wednesday aims to bring the rate the virus that causes AIDS is spread down to zero. Supervisors unanimously approved a plan that attempts to get as many people who have HIV into viral suppression — a condition where people who have the disease have a limited presence of the virus in their body and at are at low risk of giving it other people. (Stewart, 7/19)
Orange County Register:
City Will Pursue Lawsuits Against Sober-Living Homes
City officials said Tuesday they are not backing off of two lawsuits that aim to shut down two Capistrano Beach sober-living houses affiliated with two treatment centers, saying their operation violates state law and the city’s zoning code.
The lawsuits, filed by the city June 22 in Orange County Superior Court, allege that sober-living homes Capo By the Sea, at 27036 Azul Drive, and Sovereign Health Group, at 25512 Evans Pointe, are operating as drug abuse recovery and treatment facilities without state licenses. The city also alleges in the lawsuits that the homes are providing service to more than six people, which under the Dana Point zoning code means they are businesses, and that they are illegally operating in a residential area. (Ritchie, 7/19)