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More than a year after creating the Bureau of Children’s Justice, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced five investigations across the state, including examining how counties report child abuse, excessive force at juvenile detention centers, the actions of school police and school discipline …
In February, in response to advocacy by Young Minds, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced a landmark policy shift that made thousands of young people with mental health needs in California newly eligible for community-based mental health care. …
California counties will now be able to offer a therapeutic treatment model in a supportive family setting through its Medi-Cal services, thanks to an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). On February 16, CMS approved a …
Most group homes in California are poised to embrace mandated changes to the way they administer services under a new law if they want to continue providing care to children and youth in foster care. But for one residential facility …
Credit: Shannon Cottrell Calif. Community College Chancellor Brice Harris and Keetha Mills, CEO of the Foundation for California Community Colleges, accept an award at the Blueprint Conference held in Los Angeles on Oct. 28. Debbie Raucher (center) of the John …
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation yesterday that aims to drastically reduce the number of children placed in group homes as well as the length of time they spend in such placements, part of a package of reforms that will …
In the debate about children and psychotropic medications, everyone is looking for better outcomes. Foster youth are seeking to assert more control over their lives and their health care, and they want people to understand that medications alone cannot fix …
California’s record drought is driving a lot of change with public alarm matching the rising temperature. According to a recent poll, a record 94 percent of Californians “believe that the drought is serious, and one-third support mandatory rationing.” The drought …
by Michael Grabell ProPublica, April 29, 2015, 5:13 p.m. A bill that would prevent insurance companies from using routine doctor requests to reopen the cases of injured workers and deny previously approved care passed a key California senate committee Wednesday. The …
Thomas Lee, division director of transition-aged youth services (second to left), shares information on Youth Moving On’s Peer Resource Center with Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Michael Antonovich (right). Looking on are Monique Holguin (left) and Jessica Petrass from Youth …
