Articles by Jocelyn Wiener
March 2024
With Prop. 1, Gavin Newsom Again Changes How Californians With Mental Illness Get Help
February 2024
California Voters Will Decide on Newsom’s Mental Health Overhaul. How Did We Get Here?
January 2024
New California Laws for 2024: Nursing Homes Must Provide More Information Before Evictions
December 2023
October 2023
California Mental Health Agency on the Hot Seat as Lawmakers Review ‘Groundbreaking’ Law
Gavin Newsom Signs New Law in ‘Overhaul’ of Mental Health System. It Changes Decades of Practice
September 2022
Governor Signs Contentious Nursing Home Licensing Bill That Splintered Advocates
Unanswered Cries: Why California Faces a Shortage of Mental Health Workers
August 2022
Kaiser Mental Health Workers Signal Open-Ended Strike in Northern California
July 2022
Dial 988: State’s New Mental Health Crisis Hotline Debuts
June 2022
Lawmakers Weaken California Nursing Homes Bill — Sponsors Yank Their Support
March 2022
When Children Suffer: California to Funnel Billions Into Mental Health Overhaul
Newsom Unveils ‘Completely New Strategy’ for California’s Mental Health Crisis
October 2021
State Health Department Blasted Over Nursing Home Oversight
Shlomo Rechnitz Nursing Home Suit Over COVID Deaths Reflects ‘Broken State Licensing’
September 2021
Stranded in the ER: Can California Change Its Treatment of Kids in Crisis?
Call 988: How Will California Pay for the New Crisis Hotline?
April 2021
‘People Are Dying as We Wait’: Bid to Tighten California Nursing Home Oversight Sputters
September 2020
LETTER FROM HUMBOLDT: A Mental Health ‘Tsunami’ Looms: Can California Prevent a Surge in Suicides?
‘I Was Looking for Someone Like Me’
August 2020
California Poised to Become National Leader on Mental Health and Addiction Coverage
Why Californians With Mental Illness Are Dropping Private Insurance to Get Taxpayer-Funded Treatment
July 2020
Who Responds to Nonviolent Crises? New Urgency to Remove Police From the Equation
June 2020
Newsom Empathizes With Protesters as Trump Threatens Military Intervention
April 2020
Acts of Grace From Everyday Californians Are Getting Us Through Coronavirus Pandemic
March 2020
How to Get Past the Coronavirus Crisis Without Losing Your Mental Health
February 2020
Inside the Governor’s Bid to Fix Homelessness: Changing How California Deals With Mental Illness
December 2019
June 2019
Treatment for Psychosis — And Other Mental Illness — Differs Drastically by County
April 2019
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