CalMatters Panel on California Mental Health – July 21, 2020

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Before the pandemic and recession, California was already struggling with a mental health system widely considered to be dysfunctional. Governor Newsom promised “an aggressive agenda to lift California’s approach to mental healthcare into a national model.” What have the pandemic and recession done to this issue and these plans? What are the mental health impacts of the virus and how is a struggling government system, now facing budget cuts, responding?

Moderator: Jocelyn Wiener, Healthcare reporter for CalMatters
Welcome by Sandra R. Hernández, MD, is president and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation

Guests:
– Dr. Rhea Boyd, a pediatrician practicing at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, and public health advocate
– John Connolly, Deputy Secretary for Behavioral Health, California Health and Human Services Agency
– CW Johnson, outreach coordinator at the Mental Health Association of San Francisco
– Jonathan E. Sherin, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health

You can submit questions to the panelists here: https://forms.gle/xTq5AzeVfXd8Zmqp8

This PolicyMatters event is underwritten by the California Health Care Foundation.