Sacramento County Local News: Crisis & Personal Support


All Local Crisis & Personal Support News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

Image caption: Kerry Wood, CEO of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, says the organization researches areas of need to help donors direct their contributions.
What Is a Community Foundation?

By channeling funds to a number of nonprofits working on various issues in a given region, community foundations help solve big problems throughout California.

Image caption: The California mental health crisis is tied to both homelessness and rising crime.
UPDATE: California’s Mental Health Crisis: How We Got Here

How the California mental health crisis emerged out of the state’s history of deinstitutionalization and laws designed to protect the mentally ill, as well as the communities around them.

Image caption: Find mental clarity with the help of these government agencies and nonprofit groups.
Finding Peace of Mind

Feeling stressed? Confused? Or just a little blue? Help is just a phone call away for residents of Sacramento County.

Image caption: California will soon be getting a new hotline number as an alternative to 911 for mental health crises.
988, the New Mental Health Emergency Number, Explained

California will soon add a new emergency hotline service with the number 988. Here’s the story behind that new service, and the original 911 number.

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04/27/2025
Police agencies — under scrutiny and worried about their own liability — increasingly won’t respond to someone in a mental health crisis unless that person is committing a crime. So who will transport people in psychosis to get help? And who will keep those around them safe?

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03/18/2025
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Sacramento County’s Department of Child, Family and Adult Services is working to preserve housing for vulnerable residents in our community. The Department of Child, Family and Adult Services is distributing funds from the California Department of Social Services Community Care Expansion Preservation Program. Sacramento County’s Department of Child, Family and Adult Services is investing nearly $12 million to preserve facilities; maintain dedicated beds for qualified residents, which includes disabled and older adults; and avoid homelessness.

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03/17/2025
Ruby Marichalar couldn’t get an in-person meeting after California’s crime victim compensation fund denied her claim. She wasn’t the only one.

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03/06/2025
Five years ago, as COVID-19 hit the state, legislators cancelled a hearing to discuss a state audit that found the state’s office of emergency services and at least three California counties weren’t prepared to help vulnerable people during natural disasters.

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02/10/2025
Interviews suggest some people swept up in Trump’s immigration crackdown are dedicated to their families and communities — not hardened criminals.

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01/30/2025
Insurance companies have paid out $4.2 billion in claims so far to survivors of the Los Angeles County fires, the state Insurance Department said Thursday.

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01/27/2025
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KCRA 3, KQCA My58 and the California Gold Country Region Chapter of the American Red Cross partnered on a disaster relief drive that raised more than $940,000 to support people impacted by the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.

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01/23/2025
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Assemblyman Josh Hoover, a resident of Folsom, has introduced legislation to impose harsher penalties on individuals who exploit victims during emergencies. On Thursday, Hoover announced Assembly Bill 271, which aims to protect victims of wildfires and other disasters from additional hardship by increasing penalties for looting during declared states of emergency.

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01/21/2025
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In another act of unity, the Rotary Club of Historic Folsom, Folsom Lake Rotary, and the Rotary Club of Folsom are coming together to collect essential supplies for victims of the devastating wildfires in Southern California. The clubs are aiming to fill a moving truck with critical items to provide relief for displaced residents.

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01/19/2025
President Donald Trump announced at a rally that he will be visiting Los Angeles to tour the scene of the recent (and at this time, ongoing) devastating wildfires. Read on to learn more.

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01/09/2025
The state’s plan to fix the insurance crisis had barely rolled out when the Los Angeles fires began. Can the market recover and stabilize?

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12/17/2024
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You may not know about Sacramento County's Local Assistance Centers (LAC), but when residents are hit with disasters, the centers become vital locations for people who need help getting their lives back on track.

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12/09/2024
A week after Sacramento County initiate its CARE Court, petitions have been filed for the first three people to be considered under the new program. Read on to learn more about the CARE Court system.

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10/08/2024
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Sacramento County is making tremendous progress in its goal to achieve a shorter ambulance patient offload time, according to county officials.

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09/05/2024
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September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness and discuss this urgently increasing crisis.

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07/26/2024
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The Folsom Police Department is requesting the public's assistance in locating an "at risk" missing person, Terri Thompson-Liggett.

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04/09/2024
These professionals provide essential services, but their pay and working conditions do not reflect their value, and their health suffers.

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03/29/2024
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The state is considering zeroing out funds for CalWORKS family stabilization and job subsidy programs to help balance the budget.

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03/10/2024
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For more than four decades, YoloCares has helped families navigate life’s final stages.