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Working Together: TTCF and California Local

08/12/2023
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A conversation with Stacy Caldwell, CEO of Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation

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Millions of Californians Struggle to Get Enough Food Despite State’s Abundance

08/07/2023
How bad is California hunger? A lot depends on your access to food aid, which expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic but is being reduced.

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New Biden Rules Put Asylum Seekers at California Border at Heightened Risk

08/06/2023
The Biden administration’s app rule makes it harder for migrants to assert a right to asylum, advocates say. Lawsuits are sparking debate about immigration control, safety.

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Santa Clara County Gets State Help to Fund Detox Beds

08/04/2023
The California Department of Health Care Services has awarded $6.4 million to San-Jose based nonprofit Pathway Society to construct a 30-bed detox facility adjacent to Pathway House.

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A Year With 988: What Worked? What Lies Ahead?

08/01/2023
The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s 988 hotline marked its one-year milestone this month. Mental health experts say the three-digit number made help more accessible than before.

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California Nurse Shortage Grows as Leaders Bicker Over How to Fill Jobs

07/30/2023
Some hospitals in Southern California have a nurse vacancy rate of 30 percent, stressing overworked staff and causing some to leave the industry earlier than they planned.

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Nonprofit Offering Low-Cost Therapy to Temporarily Close Clinic

07/27/2023
Community Health Awareness Council, which has offered low-cost therapy in Mountain View for 50 years, is closing its clinic because of financial struggles.

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Los Angeles Homeless Population Grows. But Mayor Karen Bass Has Also Made Gains

07/26/2023
Despite efforts by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to shelter more than 14,000 people this year, the city's homeless population keeps growing. That does not necessarily mean her signature program is failing. The larger question: How does California measure success?

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Woman Speaks Out Over ‘Traumatizing’ Experience When Faced With Involuntary Mental Health Hold

07/14/2023
Mountain View resident Patrice Moore heard a knock on her front door that would change her life. It was the police, who had arrived and would soon place her in an involuntary psychiatric hold.

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Santa Clara County to Open Mental Health Residential Facility

07/12/2023
In less than a month, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center will have a psychiatric resource to help fill the treatment gap between acute care and long-term stability with a new 28-bed adult residential treatment center at 650 S. Bascom Ave. in San Jose.

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California Steps Up Efforts to Stem Violence Against Native Americans With Feather Alert System

07/06/2023
Today tribal leaders, local law enforcement and lawmakers gathered to learn how the a new tool—the Feather Alert—will work to help law enforcement quickly notify the public about missing Native Americans and enlist their aid.

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Opioid Overdose Prevention Workshops Scheduled at Libraries

07/05/2023
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The Santa Clara County Library District and the Behavioral Health Services Department are spreading the word about the opioid crisis at workshops this summer.

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Mental Health Providers Say New Medi-Cal Reform May Force Them to Cut Services

07/05/2023
Medi-Cal is changing how it pays mental health providers. Many of those providers say they may no longer be able to afford peer support specialists, home visits and other services.

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ACLU Launches State’s 1st Database to Track Conditions in Immigration Detention Facilities

06/26/2023
The ACLU Foundation of Northern California launched the California Immigration Detention Database, a tool to track complaints filed by immigrants in California detention facilities to seek redress against inhumane conditions.

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CalFresh Farmers Market Benefits May Be Cut in Budget Deal

06/19/2023
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A program allowing CalFresh benefits to be used at farmer's markets may end up on the cutting room floor.

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Mountain View’s Mental Health Nonprofit Puts Clinic Services on Hiatus

06/16/2023
Mountain View-based mental health services nonprofit CHAC announced that its clinic services will be going on hiatus beginning in August due to a currently insurmountable budget deficit.

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California Food Banks Flooded by Families Needing Help

06/09/2023
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With pandemic benefits ending, food banks have become supermarkets for thousands of Californians.

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Santa Clara County’s Controversial Mental Health Program in High Demand

06/08/2023
The Assisted Outpatient Treatment program, also known as Laura’s Law, allows authorities and family members to refer people diagnosed with a severe mental illness into the program after they refuse prior treatment. The program began last February. On June 6, the county’s behavioral health department reported its first year findings.

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Santa Clara County to Fight Substance Abuse With Opioid Settlement Money

06/07/2023
With opioid overdoses rising, Santa Clara County is expanding substance abuse support at schools, distributing more naloxone and fentanyl testing strips and boosting youth inpatient treatment using money from a settlement with opioid distributors.

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Fighting Fentanyl: Mother Honors Son With Jolly10K Run

06/02/2023
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Leslie Gentry has a smile that’s so infectious it can lift your spirits. It hurts to think that the 50-year-old comic book store office manager could have lost a child to fentanyl.

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