Posts Tagged ‘mental health’
Darrell Steinberg Pushes for Mental Health Care Funding
California Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) is advocating for increased funding for mental health care services nationwide. In the wake of a December 2012 shooting at a Connecticut elementary school, Steinberg announced plans to push for a $10 billion investment in preventing and treating mental health conditions [...]
Mentally Ill Miss Out on Prop. 63 Funds
California voters passed the Mental Health Services Act in 2004 because they know how mental illness debilitates their families, destroys their friends and harms their communities. It is thus disturbing that the state agency overseeing Prop. 63 spending is ignoring the requirements of the law – to spend the funds it raises on services to [...]
