Anita Street: Public-Private Partnership Addressing Mental Health Access Orange, CA (December 6, 2018) – At the urging of Supervisor Andrew Do, Orange County’s Medi-Cal Health Plan, CalOptima, allocated $11.4 million…
[caption id="attachment_27063" align="aligncenter" width="192"] Lucero Diaz Carrera[/caption] Lucero Carrera, now 33, a Santa Ana woman twice convicted of drowning her 2-month-old baby, Kimberly, was insane at the time of the…
[embed]https://www.facebook.com/alexxxgonzo/videos/773303163009641/[/embed] Lorena Gonzalez, a resident of Fullerton, has been missing since October 1. Her brother Alex Gonzalez reports that she is off her medication. Gonzalez fell back into depression and…
Santa Ana College – The Saga of Mismanagement Continues By: Renee Miller, Retired SAC faculty The mismanagement within the Rancho Santiago CCD (RSCCD) has been well documented. An editorial we previously…
Orange County Medi-Cal Health Plan Approves $9.7 Million for Children’s Mental Health “Many families don’t know how to access mental health services. This funding will help change that,” says Supervisor…
[caption id="attachment_71851" align="aligncenter" width="180"] Lily Huang[/caption] Santa Ana Police Department Advisory: SAPD Requesting Assistance Locating A Critical Missing Person Missing Person, Lily HUANG was last seen around midnight on August…
Orange County Bolsters Mental Health Support Services By: First District Supervisor Andrew Do Orange County is bolstering its non-crisis mental health support hotline after experiencing a 56 percent surge in…
OC Health Care Agency Completes Assessments of Homeless Individuals in Civic Center Santa Ana, Calif. (April 13, 2018) – As of April 10, the OC Health Care Agency (HCA), in…
[caption id="attachment_70340" align="aligncenter" width="196"] Jose Rigoberto Silva[/caption] Santa Ana Police Department Advisory: SAPD Currently Looking for a Critical Missing Adult – Requesting Public’s Assistance On April 12, 2018, at approximately…
Homelessness Update By O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do On Monday, the Orange County Board of Supervisors directed staff to use $70.5 million of Mental Health Services Act funds for supportive housing…
Santa Ana, Calif. (March 15, 2018) – Orange County will audit more than $219 million in mental health spending in an effort to improve programs and better coordinate services with the county’s…
Homelessness: Orange County buys property for $26 million mental health facility Orange County purchased a property that will become the county's first publicly-owned mental health facility. As part of its…
We Care. Get Help. [SAUSD Mental Health Assistance Awareness Video] from sausdnews on Vimeo. Santa Ana Unified School District Releases 'We Care' Video to Encourage Students to Seek Help (January…
Chairman Andrew Do and Vice Chairman Shawn Nelson directed the Orange County Health Care Agency to use $15 million of available unspent Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) funds for mental…
Marvin Horatio Cipullo, 32, a man diagnosed with schizophrenia will be sent to a state mental hospital instead of prison for stabbing his mother, 57-year-old Rebeca Garcia, to death in their…