Liza Ramrayka

With cuts to mental health services and the erosion of DEI work on the horizon, public media matters more than ever before. It’s about uncovering challenges, highlighting solutions, and providing a platform for those who don’t get the coverage they deserve from mainstream media.

Adults of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander descent seek mental health services much less than any other demographic group in the country. And seniors in those AANHPI communities are particularly vulnerable. They can experience loneliness, anxiety from anti-Asian hate crime and language barriers to accessing mental health services.

In part two of of our series on AAPI mental health. We examines culturally-sensitive responses to supporting Chinese American seniors in San Francisco and Oakland.

In part one of a series on mental health in AAPI communities, we look at community-grown solutions helping seniors in San Mateo county address loneliness and depression.

A candid conversation about the challenges young people face and the tools they can use to handle them.

What if your doctor prescribed you a walk in the park instead of a pill? Doctors in San Mateo County are giving patients a prescription to spend time outdoors. The Park Rx program is getting patients back to health, by getting them back to nature.

Many of the Bay Area’s public high schools reopened last month after almost a year and a half of remote learning. How has a lost year of lockdown derailed teen mental health? And what support might be needed to get students back on track?

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A renowned San Francisco private investigator’s final case was inadvertently helping police find the suspects in a crime outside his own home.Two men were…

In his first press conference this year, Governor Gavin Newsom warned of a post-holiday COVID-19 surge and set out plans to step up vaccinations.Newsom…