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Is This California Housing Program the Ideal Model for Treating People with Severe Mental Illness?

California Health Report
To those who knew him, Noah Silver was a bright, happy child identified as gifted with a penchant for playing instruments. He started playing bass guitar at the age of 11 and picked up acoustic guitar a year later. Silver took guitar lessons and taught himself to play drums. But in his teen years, something changed, his mother, Kartar Diamond said.

For Those With Severe Mental Illness, Treatment Options Are Often Lacking — But There Are Solutions

California Health Report
For more than 20 years, Jessica Johnson lived on the streets of El Sobrante, Antioch and other cities in Contra Costa County. For a while, she slept behind a bank. Sometimes, she’d find respite in a park.

After brother’s suicide, Blackfeet sisters are creating a horse-based alternative to talk therapy

Montana Free Press
BLACKFEET RESERVATION — The air was getting colder, winds were picking up, the barn windows needed sealing, and Lynn Mad Plume was at a breaking point.
Her brother Wyatt had taken his own life less than two years before at age 29.

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In a pandemic, people might know they need food or housing. But how do you help them realize they also need therapy?

June 3, 2022 |

From the Chicago Tribune

As the pandemic wore on, Kayode Martin felt stuck. He’d graduated virtually, a high school senior when COVID-19 arrived in Chicago. A year later, in 2021, he was working at a store but struggling to find a routine that felt on good footing.

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