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Teacher Elena Malone with her husband, Josh Ryan, and kids Ruby, 11, and Amos, 9, and their poodle Zara. Their dream home in the horsey Los Angeles area of Sun Valley has become a nightmare ...
Laura Wilcox was a 19-year-old college sophomore who had been valedictorian of her high school before going on to study at Haverford College. [1] While working at Nevada County's public mental health clinic during her winter break from college, on January 10, 2001, she and two other people were shot to death by Scott Harlan Thorpe, a 40-year-old man who resisted his family's and a social ...
Hundreds of mentally ill detainees incarcerated across California in recent years have languished in jail long after being declared incompetent to stand trial.
The Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU), including the Systemwide Mental Assessment Response Team (SMART), is the police crisis intervention team of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), working with people suspected of having a mental illness. [1] The MEU seeks to de-escalate situations where mentally-ill suspects are believed be involved. [2]
There was also a gospel mission in West Los Angeles. [3] In the late 1910s, a local newspaper described the breadth of services provided by Pisgah Home: "Its door is ever open any hour, day or night, to receive the poor, needy, homeless, the drunkard, fallen, or outcast. Across the Arroyo, the 'Ark' makes a home for rescued women and girls.
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He entered the Spanish Mission-style facility, located 60 miles north of Los Angeles, under the wrenching spell of heroin withdrawal. In the room Peterson shared with 50 other patients, he was the only drug addict. Not once did a doctor treat him, a nurse attend to him or a psychiatrist hear his story.
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]