Health – Page 2 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

In the absence of patient advocate groups to advise hospitals on methods to improve health care and to help people overcome obstacles in obtaining adequate health care, human relations commissions will typically receive complaints about hospitals refusing to provide health care, being unable to communicate with non-English speaking residents and other issues relating to the inadequate provision of health care.

Commissions may examine the feasibility of assisting community groups to form a patient advocacy group, form a health committee to assure itself that hospitals are meeting the needs of the community, respond to complaints as they made or select some other appropriate option. When complaints of health care are chronic commissions may hold public hearings to publicize the issues and gain support for programs designed to remedy the problems.

San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 August 27th, 2015|Disability, Employment & Housing, Health|

SAN FRANCISCO — When the emergency bell sounds at Fire Station 1 here, firefighters pull on boots and backpacks, swing into Engine 1 and hurtle out the door in almost a single motion, a blast of red lights and caterwauling sirens. More often than not, there is no fire.

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Homeless woman’s case sharpens focus on justice system and mentally ill

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:25+00:00 July 24th, 2015|Health, Police & Community|

The list of Trishawn Cardessa Carey’s prescriptions fills a page in her case file: clonazepam for seizures and panic, methocarbamol for muscle spasms and quetiapine for spells of psychosis. She suffers delusions, paranoia and “dramatic mood swings.”

For years, the homeless woman has lived off Social Security tied to her mental disability — a doctor diagnosed

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The nightmare outcome of a son’s mental illness

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 13th, 2015|Disability, Health, Police & Community|

Cynthia Hernandez was thinking about the missing dog when she awoke early that September morning in her family’s two-story tract home, tucked away in a residential enclave north of a busy commercial corridor in Chino.

For Mentally Ill Inmates, a Cycle of Jail and Hospitals

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 10th, 2015|Health, Police & Community|

It was not a particularly violent crime that sent Michael Megginson to Rikers Island. He was arrested for stealing a cellphone.

But in jail, Mr. Megginson, who is 25 and has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals

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New York City Plans Focus on Mental Health in Justice System

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:14+00:00 December 2nd, 2014|Disability, Health, Police & Community|

In an effort to reduce the growing number of inmates with mental health and substance abuse problems in New York City’s jails, the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Monday to significantly expand public health services at almost every

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Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Clinics to Stay Open

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:16+00:00 October 15th, 2014|Health|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed more than a dozen Texas abortion clinics to reopen, blocking a state law that had imposed strict requirements on abortion providers. Had the law been allowed to stand, it would have caused all but eight of the state’s

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Study Links Discrimination, Blacks’ Risk of Mental Disorders

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:49+00:00 September 22nd, 2014|Health, Intergroup Relations|

New research shows that African Americans and Caribbean Blacks who experience multiple types of discrimination are at a much greater risk for a variety of mental disorders, such as anxiety, depression and substance abuse. The same study, published in the August 2014 edition of Addictive Behaviors, also suggests that there are four main types of

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LAPD chief faces tense crowd over shooting of mentally ill man

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:50+00:00 August 20th, 2014|Disability, Health, Police & Community|

The atmosphere in a South Los Angeles church was at times tense Tuesday night as residents and activists peppered Los Angeles police officials with questions about two officers’ fatal shooting of a mentally ill man.

http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-lapd-shooting-20140820-story.html

Los Angeles Times

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Los Angeles County supervisors vote to implement Laura’s Law

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:51+00:00 July 16th, 2014|Health, Police & Community|

Los Angeles County leaders voted Tuesday to fully implement Laura’s Law, a state law that allows counties to pursue court-ordered outpatient treatment for people with serious mental illness.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-los-angeles-county-lauras-law-20140715-story.html

Los Angeles Times

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Freeway incident raises questions on how police interact with public

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:52:52+00:00 July 8th, 2014|Health, Police & Community|

Marlene Pinnock is a mother of two who once studied bookkeeping and accounting. But her life has not been simple.

She was

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