Sacramento County Crisis & Personal Support Overview

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.