From a small station in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights, 18-year-old Kennia Camacho talks with teens about anxiety, stress and depression. We should listen.
South Los Angeles pastor is demanding better for herself and others with dementia.
The health care provider canceled patient appointments during a 2022 strike. State regulators say they are making sure the company does not break the law during the current strike in Southern California.
A year after the health care giant settled with California regulators, about 2,400 SoCal mental health workers say patients still lack timely care due to understaffing.
For many young people, peer support can be the first step to accessing effective mental health care.
Kaiser and regulators are two months away from their deadline for a required action plan to overhaul mental health treatment at the state’s largest health care provider.
A Senate bill would immediately send urgent cases denied services to an independent review.
In the Arab American enclave of Dearborn, anxiety, depression and substance abuse strain the “9/11 generation.”
It is one of the state’s greatest health needs, companies fail to live up to their policies, and the state does not invest what is needed for enforcement.
Running Mamis creates a safe space to run — away from road hazards, harassment and the strains of postpartum depression.
Where mental health information and access to care is scarce, coaches may be a trusted resource for children and teens.
A therapist is “guardedly optimistic” the health care giant is taking the shortage seriously, and the union says Kaiser may now realize it must invest billions to comply with the law.
A California settlement compels the state’s largest health care provider to spend $150 million on behavioral health services.
Black and Latino children are more likely to be hurt by harmful experiences that can lead to lifelong suffering.
As insurers reject coverage amid soaring anxiety and depression, a bill to help children and teens is quietly killed.
The legislation would overhaul the process to appeal denials of coverage by private health insurance companies.
Rossana Pérez, healer and activist in the Salvadoran community of Los Angeles, talks about the transgenerational trauma that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed.
Can we learn to look at violence as an aspect of pain?
While it ponders ambitious new laws to improve mental health, California could strengthen what’s already on the books.
To deal with huge health care disparities, some Californians focus first on a single concept: equity.