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On the December 8th, 2014 edition of Your Call, we’ll talk to Dr. Robert Okin about his new book “Silent Voices: People With Mental Disorders On The…

Robert talks with David Doi, Executive Director of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, about a report finding that 50-75% of incarcerated juvenile offenders suffer from a diagnosable mental health disorder, that has not been adequately treated. The report compares facilities where juvenile offenders get "full-service" treatment for mental disabilities with those offenders where treatment is minimal or non-existent. The offenders in the "full-service" facilities have a dramatically reduced chance of re-entering the juvenile justice system.

YLR Host Jeff Hayden and tonight’s co-host, Dean Johnson, are joined tonight by Dr. George Bach-Y-Rita, a recently retired psychiatrist and published author of scholarly journals and articles, who was board certified in psychiatry and in neurology and practiced medicine for some 50 years.Homelessness has become one of the most visible and widely discussed issues not only in the bay area, but across the nation.Last week Governor Newsom signed the “CARE Act” -- touted as both a new paradigm for mental health treatment and at least part of the solution to the problem of homelessness -- into law, permitting family members, first responders and “others” to ask the courts to create and enforce treatment plans for people who are allegedly mentally ill.While the act has been touted as both a new paradigm for mental health treatment -- and at least part of the solution to the problem of homelessness -- civil rights groups and homeless advocates have suggested that the care act may mask a hidden agenda.

Last week we discussed nuts and bolts of the Collaborative Courts Models used in the Bay Area. This week’s program, Inside the Justice System: Evolving…

On June 18th, City Visions explored new research on and interventions for mental illness. Questions discussed included: how are health professionals in…

Across the country, officer-involved shootings this year have raised questions about police tactics. In Los Angeles, a third of police shootings involved people deemed in mental distress.

Her sister's hospitalization for depression sent Virginia Gonzales Torres on a mission to reform her country's mental health system. Some 25 years later, she's founded a series of group homes and set the standard for how developing countries can treat the mentally ill. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

Mental health and law enforcement officials in California are wrestling with that question as violence at the state's psychiatric hospitals continues to escalate. They are trying to determine how to hold violent mental patients accountable for their actions without punishing them for being sick.

A controversial conservatorship bill passed by California's Assembly would give county officials more authority to force people with mental illnesses and…

Quinton Gray talks about his life-long struggle with mental illness—and the assumptions people make about him.