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Mental health treatment newly available at clinics

By California Health Report

By Mary Flynn

Since healthcare reform has started rolling out in California, community clinic have moved towards becoming ‘medical homes,’ or centers of care. That means qualifying low-income patients have access to primary care, pharmacy services, or specialty care. And especially exciting to health specialists is the new availability of mental health and substance abuse services, which are being included at clinics for the first time. But those benefits are dependent on the continuation of federal healthcare reform.

Planning transportation around the Capitol

By California Health Report

Sacramento freeways are notorious for traffic during rush hour. Not only is the capitol region flanked by two major rivers, cutting off potential access routes in and out of the area, but its suburbs are expanding at a rapid rate. But help may soon be on the way.

A Dream Deferred?

By California Health Report

By Robert Fulton

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. And according to residents and community leaders in South Los Angeles, too little has changed over the past two decades.

City harvesting benefits homeowners and the hungry

By California Health Report

By Enrique Gili

Streets take on the look of an unruly Eden in the leafier parts of San Diego. Lawns, large lots, even sidewalk medians are interlaced with fruiting varieties of trees, palm trees and lush vegetation. Sometimes the abundance of common produce – lemons, oranges, avocados – can overwhelm homeowners. So locavores and food security advocates have teamed up with a growing number of volunteers, matching overburdened homeowners with pickers eager to help haul the excess produce to food pantries throughout San Diego County.

Holistic mental wellness center coming to Fresno

By California Health Report

By Todd R. Brown

To some immigrants, the details of Western medicine lie in unfamiliar territory, so certain maladies wind up being treated by traditional healers rather than modern medical practitioners.

To remedy that dichotomy, Fresno County plans to open a holistic wellness center that will link Hmong, Latinos and other groups with spiritually fulfilling as well as evidence-based solutions to mental health worries.

Community comes together for troubled youth

By California Health Report

By Lynn Graebner

On a 100-acre ranch in the foothills northeast of Salinas, 28 students, many of whom are on probation, are building a house. When it’s finished, it will shelter some of them from the violence in their own neighborhoods. This Youth Build project is one of the first steps in an extensive expansion of Rancho Cielo Youth Campus in Salinas. The nonprofit provides young people who are on probation, parole or are at risk of gang affiliation a chance to earn a high school diploma, get job training and a healthy dose of self esteem.

Realignment results in lengthy jail sentences

By California Health Report

By Minerva Perez

Jails were meant to hold people for short stays, but are now housing prisoners with sentences as long as 23 years, without the necessary resources for longer stays, such as medical care and other social services programs that help rehabilitate prisoners.

Video observation helps TB-stricken stick with meds

By California Health Report

By Julissa McKinnon

Now that Sayuri Linet Salazar is feeling healthy again, the 19-year-old admits she’s sometimes tempted to abandon the time-consuming treatment for her tuberculosis. The college student of Ensenada, Mexico said she’s grown tired of planning her life around medication. Researchers at UC San Diego hope that a new video tool they are developing prevents patients like Salazar from defecting treatment by making it more convenient for doctors to monitor their medical intake.

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