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The voter-approved MHSA initiative [9] provides for developing, through an extensive stakeholder process, a comprehensive approach to providing community based mental health services and supports for California residents. Approximately 51,000 taxpayers in California will be helping to fund the MHSA through an estimated $750 million in tax ...
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 was an initiative aimed at enhancing and broadening community based health services across the country. Yet its influence was brief as it was only in effect for 10 months. Changes in politics during the 1980s resulted in its removal and a notable decrease in government backing for health programs.
Lanterman–Petris–Short Act. The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act (Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures ...
The Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation is a community mental health service model that helps people with a history of serious mental illness rejoin society and maintain their place in it; it builds on people's strengths and provides mutual support, along with professional staff support, for people to receive prevocational work training, educational opportunities, and social support.
The Mental Health Association of San Francisco (MHA-SF) is a charitable organization which deals with mental health education, advocacy, research, and service in San Francisco. It was established as the San Francisco Mental Hygiene Society in 1947. The present name was adopted in 1957. The San Francisco-based organization is one of 320 ...
Reiko Homma True (born 1933) is an internationally known Japanese American psychologist. True is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco, CA. She is recognized for her efforts to advance mental health services for Asian Americans and other minorities. [1] She conducts research studies examining ...
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a United States-based nonprofit organization [ 1 ] originally founded as a grassroots group by family members of people diagnosed with mental illness. NAMI identifies its mission as "providing advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by ...
Cynthia Gómez is a third generation Mexican American. [2] She was born in Long Beach, California, on September 9, 1958. [1] Her parents, Lilly Gonzales and Augustine U. Gómez, are both of Mexican descent. [1] She moved to a small village in Ecuador at the age of six because of her father's job at a tuna cannery, where she learned how to speak ...