For years, children’s mental health sat in the shadows. Too stigmatized to name. Too easy for systems to deprioritize. Too underfunded to reach the families who needed it most.

This year’s legislative priorities focus on breaking cycles of incarceration, homelessness, and hospitalization for Californians with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders.

No two senior centers are alike. We visited three very different venues in L.A. to learn how they’re changing for California’s aging population.

Two lawsuits playing out in federal and state courts are accusing Meta, Google and other tech companies of their social media sites being purposefully designed to hook young users, leading to mental health risks.

This major review paper, the first of its kind to summarize the effects of mental and physical health across domains was just released.

Visual storytelling that brings mental health into focus. Catchlight is launching its first issue-specific desk: a three-year visual reporting initiative focused on mental health.

A milestone achievement in ensuring California’s most vulnerable populations get immediate access to “whatever it takes” mental health care.

As part of their ongoing commitment to improve youth mental health, Children Now has partnered with Blue Shield California to conduct the BlueSky Youth Mental Health Survey.

Children Now delivered a Children’s Movement Letter signed by more than 380 organizations across California urging Governor Newsom to sign the Digital Assurance Act and keep kids safer online while dramatically helping their mental health.

The landscape of state-funded mental health services has been shifting in California.

Today, Project Healthy Minds’ bread and butter consists of three buckets: changing attitudes around mental health, expanding access to mental health services, and using data to influence broader systems.

Luminary closes its first $10M fund, our first seven investments and grants, and the first gathering of leaders across the field. Most of all, we celebrate the opportunity to improve family mental health in this country at a time when it’s needed most.

Potential cuts to Medicaid have Californians bracing for changes that could weaken recent gains in mental health care and addiction treatment.

Millions of Californians access behavioral health services annually through the State’s public mental health system.

Fueled by Pinterest, the Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Foundation, and lululemon, career exploration nonprofit Roadtrip Nation is sending three young adults interested in mental health and wellbeing on a free, life-changing road trip across the United States.

CCT shares five essential strategies to address the youth mental health crisis.

California requires insurers to cover medically necessary mental health treatment. But to patients, the separation between what that law requires and what health plans provide often feels like a gaping chasm.

ver the past few years, California has taken

admirable steps towards more robust and

fairer access to the mental health resources

young people need in the midst of an

enormous surge in demand.

Millions of parents who may face challenges around youth mental health, social media, and lack of optimism about the future, were tuning in for advice on how to navigate these complex times.

Because of the hard work of our team and many of our allies, the All-Payer Fee Schedule makes all schools automatically “in network” for all managed care plans.