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Data Report: How the City responded to homelessness Dec. 16-22
The City of Sacramento has released its weekly progress report for the City’s Incident Management Team responding to homelessness. From Dec. 16-22, the City of Sacramento received 655 calls to 311...
Hands4Hope - Youth Making A Difference
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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.
Sacramento County is making tremendous progress in its goal to achieve a shorter ambulance patient offload time (APOT), according to county officials.
Officer John Costello saved an accident victim's life on his way to work
September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness and discuss this urgently increasing crisisOriginal article published at Rancho Cordova Independent
The Folsom Police Department is requesting the public's assistance in locating an "at risk" missing person, Terri Thompson-Liggett.
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.
The state is considering zeroing out funds for CalWORKS family stabilization and job subsidy programs to help balance the budget.
A conversation with two committed professionals who help CASA Sacramento match trained volunteers with children in the foster care system.
For more than four decades, YoloCares has helped families navigate life’s final stages.
Lawmakers in California and other states are now making attempts to prevent the reported harms to children caused by social media platforms. The U.S. Senate got into the act as well, at a dramatic Jan. 31 hearing.
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go....
San Francisco provides all tenants facing eviction access to an attorney. Across the Bay, in Contra Costa County, it’s a different story. Two tenants’ stories show the difference a lawyer can make.
End Poverty in California, a nonprofit founded by former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, has been on a listening tour of the Golden State since early 2022.
More than 70,000 households who needed and applied for state aid to pay their rent during the COVID-19 pandemic by the March 2022 deadline still have their applications listed as "pending." Now they could be evicted from their homes.
By Will Duvall and Kimberly Gomez Santos The number of deaths due to opioid related overdoses has steadily increased in Sacramento County, with 215 fatalities...
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature mental health policies allow the involuntary treatment of more Californians with severe mental illnesses. Some fear the new laws will infringe on the civil liberties of people confined against their will.
California collects a special tax on high incomes to fund mental health services. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to change how the money is spent so a share of it can be used to fund housing for homeless people with mental …
More workers are filing claims with the state alleging employers are retaliating against them for engaging in legally protected activities, such as seeking overtime pay or reporting wage theft or discrimination.
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