Blog posts -- Social services

SACRAMENTO – California would spend more than $2 billion on permanent housing to help the nation’s largest homeless population, under a proposal outlined by state senators on Monday. The housing bond would be enough to construct more than 10,000 housing units when it’s combined with other federal and local money, estimated Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles. The bond would be repaid with money from Proposition 63, the 2004 ballot measure that added a 1...

Trainings have been completed and the Nevada County Public Health Department has begun the Moving Beyond Depression program, working in partnership with local home visitation programs. This evidence-based program is a proven...

Jeremiah was a 17-year-old in south San Francisco with just three weeks until his high school graduation. For him, graduating would be a triumphant punctuation mark. For the past three years up until this April, Californias...