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Los Angeles County will return an estimated $15 million in unspent mental health grants intended to keep vulnerable people from landing in hospital and jails.
LAMP Community (originally the Los Angeles Men's Place) is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization located in Skid Row that seeks to permanently end homelessness, improve health, and build self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness. [1] [2] Lamp Community also played a prominent role in the movie The Soloist. [3]
Mental health, and how it is getting addressed, has been one of the major leitmotifs of the past year of pandemic living. Today a startup called Headway, which has been working on building a ...
Totaling $1.37 billion through the third quarter, venture capital funding of US mental health startups this year has already outpaced the $1.06 billion invested in 2019, according to PitchBook data.
The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH or DMH), is the largest county mental health department in the United States and provides mental health services for Los Angeles County residents. [1] DMH directly operates 75 program sites in the county and serves over 250,000 clients annually. [3]
On January 13, 2015, the Board of Supervisors by unanimous decision approved the concept of integrating all health departments: Department of Health Services (DHS), Mental Health (DMH), and Public Health (DPH) to create a unified health agency (Health Agency). It was later motioned by Michael D. Antonovich on August 11, 2015.
But funding for mental health startups peaked at $5.5 billion in 2021 before dropping by about half in 2022. Unlike most startups in the category, Wondermind is not starting with any form of ...
In the 1960s, the Los Angeles City Health Department merged into the county's Department of Health. [8] In 1972, the Los Angeles County Departments of Hospitals and Health, along with the Los Angeles County Veterinarian's Office, were merged into the Department of Health Services, to consolidate and integrate health services. [8]