NAMI Connection Support Group
NAMI Connection Support Group
Solution focused support group for people living with a mental health condition.
Every Saturday: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Kaiser Permanente Medical Offices, Group Room 221263 Erwin St., Woodland Hills, CA 91364
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NAMI Family to Family Class
NAMI Family to Family
Free 12-week class for family members, significant other, and friends of people living with mental health issues.
Start the road to recovery
June 7th, 2017: 7:00pm – 9:30pm
Real Life Church, Room 21223841 Newhall Ranch Road, Valencia, CA 91355
RSVP by calling Brian Bronson at 818.378.5876
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Exploring L.A.’s Growing Problem with Competency Hearings
Los Angeles County’s lone mental health courthouse is having trouble keeping up with a flood of competency cases. Inmates arrive at 7:30 a.m. in county buses, are assessed by a psychiatrist, processed through a hearing approaching only 10 minutes long, and still they are so overbooked, hearings are rescheduled 3 or 4 times.
The mysterious surge of competency hearings in recent years is unprecedented. Not only does it have public defenders and county clerks concerned; it has now drawn the attention of major publications like the Los Angeles Times.
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