{"id":628984,"date":"2026-05-07T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:58:10","slug":"measure-would-boost-mental-health-care-in-california-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628984\/","title":{"rendered":"Measure would boost mental health care in California \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cBlakespear\u2019s bills to help seriously mentally ill people pass first hurdle\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/04\/22\/blakespears-bills-to-help-seriously-mentally-ill-people-pass-first-hurdle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 22<\/a>):\u00a0My family\u2019s struggles with California\u2019s mental health system have been covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/12\/07\/san-diego-family-struggles-with-all-too-familiar-cycle-of-mental-illness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local<\/a>, state and national news. The system too often prioritizes my cousin\u2019s \u201cright\u201d to remain untreated and homeless over his right to recover \u2014 and over his elderly mother\u2019s right to be safe. His untreated psychosis has led to repeated incarcerations for violent assaults.<\/p>\n<p>SB 1016 would help the severely mentally ill by allowing courts to order comprehensive mental health evaluations and create a pathway toward conservatorship when brain dysfunction prevents someone from seeking treatment independently. This bill offers a chance to break the cycle of psychosis, homelessness, incarceration and violence. Recovery and stability are possible \u2014 I have seen it happen before in my family.<\/p>\n<p>California cannot solve its homelessness crisis without addressing the failures of its mental health system.<\/p>\n<p>May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We all have the right to be well. #MyFamilyToo<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0June Dudas, El Cajon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cBlakespear\u2019s bills to help seriously mentally ill people pass first hurdle\u201d (April 22):\u00a0My family\u2019s struggles with California\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,31755,259,260,1767],"class_list":["post-628984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}