WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Representative Josh Harder (D-Calif.-09) introduced bicameral legislation to improve peer-to-peer mental health services to address the behavioral health needs of farm workers.  The Supporting Farm Workers’ Mental Health Act would require the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN), which provides mental health support to agricultural workers, to explicitly include…

People experiencing homelessness sit on the sidewalk of G Street at a small tent encampment in the Chinatown neighborhood of Fresno in February 2022. Photo: Larry Valenzuela / CalMatters California voters next spring will get to decide on a ballot measure to create housing and treatment options, especially for individuals with serious mental illness who…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers led by Professor Willem Kuyken at Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry compared the mental health difficulties and well-being of thousands of UK secondary school pupils who experienced three lockdowns, with a group of students who participated in the same study before the coronavirus pandemic emerged in 2020. The findings, part…

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