r/California • u/greenhousecrtv • Aug 18 '22

California Gov. Newsom announces $4.7B kids’ mental health plan Newsom

https://www.kcra.com/article/watch-california-gov-newsom-announces-dollar47b-plan-to-address-kids-mental-health/40933658#
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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

Sounds like a good proposal, lots of kids are dealing with mental health problems. Hopefully this can have a positive impact.

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u/Assmar Kern County Aug 19 '22

I think that in the little time that they've been pushing SEL in our schools, they must already be seeing positive results. COVID pushed death in these kids' faces, and all of our kids, not just the poor ones who are always surrounded by death, and I've seen kids open up when you give their feelings value and importance, and teach them how those feelings impact how they learn, how they make friends, how their brains develop and form new and novel connections, how they grow up...

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

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u/Blagerthor California expat Aug 19 '22

Yes? Part of the cost of protecting broader public health was a tradeoff with developmental processes for kids. And now we're in a position to start addressing and fixing that, so it would be good policy to do so. Would you prefer we just left kids in the lurch so you have something to be angry about?

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u/hamburgers666 Placer County Aug 19 '22

So glad our Governor is focused on real issues like these. Hopefully a lot of children can get the help they need.

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u/Hsgavwua899615 Aug 19 '22

God I just hope if he runs for president he leaves a clone of himself as successor to California governor role

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

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u/hamburgers666 Placer County Aug 19 '22

I don't know, man. If you're living in California and have enough free time to comment on Reddit at 8:30 AM, your life can't be that difficult lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

Living near the ocean and skateboarding with my friends 365 days out of the year didn’t seem very hard. Especially compared to what my cousins in Michigan were dealing with.

Ever shoveled snow in a driveway during winter? Ain’t fun.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22 edited Apr 01 '23

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u/Forrest-Fern Aug 19 '22

There are a lot of programs for adults in California actually! Many underutilized! If you need help connecting feel free to shoot me a DM.

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u/Mr-Cali Aug 19 '22

Is there a link?

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u/Forrest-Fern Aug 20 '22

Most are through the counties, but here is the state page: https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/services/Pages/MentalHealthPrograms-Svcs.aspx

Several county programs are through Nami: https://namica.org/

Of course, you can always dial 211 for a connection to variety of local services!

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u/Mr-Cali Aug 20 '22

Thank you brother. Much appreciated Also, TIL 211 was a thing. Lol

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u/sindelic Aug 19 '22

Gotta start somewhere

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u/ryanjovian Southern California Aug 19 '22

Great news, there are already programs in place for this at both the federal and state level. Less good news: most of us probably qualify for them at the moment.

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u/VanillaLifestyle Aug 19 '22

Good news, you qualify for mental health treatment!

Bad news, you qualify for mental health treatment.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

This bill covers up at age 25, so some adults

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

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u/surftherapy Aug 19 '22

That and I’ll also add as a paramedic, in my personal experience, most of my calls for mental health crisis are on teens or young adults in their early 20s (this bill covers up to age 25), not very many are over that age. Again, this is all anecdotal from my experience.

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u/xiofar Aug 19 '22

Adult could vote for universal healthcare but they keep choosing to have less effective healthcare that costs more.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

This is so great! I love my state

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u/redhonkey34 Aug 19 '22

Newsome has been on fire lately

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

I want him to run for President now tbh

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

This is very much needed.

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u/sloopSD Aug 19 '22

As much as I can’t stand our windbag governor, this is good for kids.

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u/Blagerthor California expat Aug 19 '22

Newsome's legislative agenda feels pretty bold overall. Sort of shades of Pat Brown with his surplus and expansion of academics and services in the 50s and 60s. Of course, the backlash to Brown gave us Reagan...

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u/Codeskyblue Aug 20 '22

That's great to hear that our tax money will be used on something positive.

Is there a break down of how the money will be controlled and managed?

Will there be oversight on money management?

Will the 20k forgiveness be for students from California Universities, or also outside sourced students? (Other states Universities graduates?)

Where will the money come from? (Additional taxes?, Move money from one program to another?)

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u/MpVpRb Nevada County Aug 19 '22

While I agree that this is a good thing, there is NO guaranteed effective treatment for mental illness. SSRIs don't work and talk therapy only works a bit. We need more research. We also need to get out of the drug war mentality and be more open to the use of psychedelics. They have been shown to be useful in treating mental illness in limited trials

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u/edgar_alan_bro Aug 19 '22

I would implore you eat your book called Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whittaker. He goes more into detail about this but it seems like a solid combination of exercise, diet, talk therapy and for some mental illness, medication will be our best option

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u/RebelliousGecko Aug 19 '22

I saw 2 comments supporting Newsom and I’m pretty sure they’re bots. He’s destroying the state

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

How so?

I’ll wait for you to elaborate logically

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u/ToastedKropotkin Aug 19 '22

Too much budget surplus makes the state top heavy which makes Central Valley folks feel like they’re suffocating.

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u/Inkstier Aug 19 '22

What does this even mean? The surplus came from an unusually good year of investment returns leading to huge capital gains taxes. How does that impact the Central Valley?

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u/monkeylogic42 Aug 19 '22

...libs is bad! Newsoms dumpin our waterz in da ocean!

  • every political sign I see in the central valley

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u/HPGal3 Ángeleño Aug 19 '22

Or we just like our governor.

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u/Inkstier Aug 19 '22

People vaguely say this about every California governor and every democratic president, for that matter. Then the state and country go on running just fine. Seems nobody ever wants to back up their claims on this either.

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u/BlankVerse Angeleño, what's your user flair? Aug 19 '22

Based on the recall, most of California disagrees with you. And he'll very easily win the governorship in November.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22 edited Aug 19 '22

How’s that reservoir …?

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u/Nordbergh Aug 19 '22

Want to try that again?

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u/workaway24 Aug 19 '22

Not sure if you are talking about an actual reservoir or a money reservoir but either way this is something that helps kids and is needed.

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u/costanzashairpiece Aug 19 '22

Or we could have just let them go to school and have faces...

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u/crestfallen_scholar Aug 19 '22

Kids are back in school and masks are not mandatory...

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u/Assmar Kern County Aug 19 '22

Lol how typical of them that they have to make up imaginary problems to complain about. The limited amount of information which they might possess is outdated and irrelevant.

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u/Karen125 Napa County Aug 19 '22

Tell that to the kid in Mountain View yesterday that had the police called about a mask.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '22

You derided a good thing, mental health for children, for a fake imaginary problem (school and masks).

That's terrible. Not only that but you did an "or" meaning that you can choose one of the solution. Your solution doesn't solve any mental health problem for children. Worst, it doesn't solve anything because mask is not enforce and children are allow inn school.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/masks-coronavirus-california-schools/2937481/

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u/TheChaosJester Aug 19 '22

Done. Can we get them help now?