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She agreed to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_029_a-copy_custom-f3228875c407b98325b47961a319f0152f6037f1-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_029_a-copy_custom-f3228875c407b98325b47961a319f0152f6037f1-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_029_a-copy_custom-f3228875c407b98325b47961a319f0152f6037f1-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coordinator Brandy Hartsgrove demonstrates how the telehealth connection works at The Chapa-de Indian Health Clinic in Grass Valley, Calif. Via this video screen, patients can consult doctors hundreds of miles away. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hill is one of a growing number of Americans turning to telehealth appointments with medical providers in the wake of widespread hospital closings in remote communities, and a shortage of local primary care doctors, specialists and other providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-distance doctor-to-doctor consultations via video also fall under the “telehealth” or “telemedicine” rubric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent NPR poll of rural Americans found that nearly a quarter have used some kind of telehealth service within the past few years; 14% say they received a diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or other health care professional using email, text messaging, live text chat, a mobile app, or a live video like FaceTime or Skype. And 15% say they have received a diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or other health professional over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/rural-telehealth-20190517?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don’t see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those survey findings are part of the second of \u003ca href=\"https://media.npr.org/documents/2019/may/NPR-RWJF-HARVARD_Rural_Poll_Part_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two recent polls on rural life and health\u003c/a> conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chapa-de clinic offers telehealth services not only for consultations in behavioral health and psychiatry, but also in cardiology, nephrology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_085_a-copy_custom-1a637914e39a25b065a49562157a54ac7fdeb747-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The Chapa-de Indian Health Clinic building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_085_a-copy_custom-1a637914e39a25b065a49562157a54ac7fdeb747-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_085_a-copy_custom-1a637914e39a25b065a49562157a54ac7fdeb747-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chapa-de Indian Health Clinic in Grass Valley, Calif., offers telehealth services for various specialties, including dermatology, gastroenterology and psychiatry. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hill feels fortunate; she knows most rural health facilities don’t include telehealth services, which means most patients living in remote areas would need their own broadband internet access at home to get therapy online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s out of reach for many, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/robert-blendon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert J. Blendon\u003c/a>, co-director of NPR’s poll and professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard Chan School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that one in five rural Americans say getting access to high-speed internet is a problem for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blendon says advances in online technology have brought a “revolution” in healthcare that has left many rural patients behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They lose the ability to contact their physicians, fill prescriptions and get follow-up information without having to go see a health professional,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical care pediatrician \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/publish/providerbio/children/516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Marcin\u003c/a> at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, directs the University of California, Davis, Center for Health and Technology and regularly consults via a telehealth monitor with primary care doctors in remote hospitals in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to put the telemedicine cart [virtually] at the patient’s bedside,” Marcin says, “and within minutes our physicians are able to see the child and talk with the family members and help assist in the care that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not for telehealth, Marcin says, the costs of getting what should be routine care “are significant barriers for those living in rural communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have patients that drive to our Sacramento offices and they have to drive the night before,” he says, “and spend the night in a hotel because it’s a five-hour trip each way.” And there are additional costs for many patients, he says, such as childcare services, and missed days of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With telehealth, “a video is truly worth a thousand words,” he says; it can mean patients don’t have to make costly time-consuming trips to see a specialist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Hill initially had reservations about meeting with a therapist online, she says she’s been amazed by how helpful the sessions have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She gives me assignments and works me really hard,” Hill says, “and I have grown so much — especially just in the last few months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her latest assignment in therapy: writing down positive characteristics of herself. Initially, she could only come up with three: loyalty, compassion and resilience. But the therapist questioned that, and encouraged Hill to consider that there might be more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_220_a_custom-38c1aa4ffa8a0888af2fd48aee63e1b05914c810-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Hill in a harden is touching tall pink flowers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_220_a_custom-38c1aa4ffa8a0888af2fd48aee63e1b05914c810-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_220_a_custom-38c1aa4ffa8a0888af2fd48aee63e1b05914c810-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hill says she’s in a ‘super growth” mode these days psychologically, and says the support she’s received in therapy has been key to that. She speaks with a clinical psychologist via a telehealth session twice a week for 30 minutes, and completes assigned homework in between those appointments. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She wanted 10,” says Hill, who proceeded to work through some other issues and talk more with therapist. “Now I’ve got like 15 at least,” Hill says, “and I keep adding to the list; once I started writing things down, I started really seeing that I have a lot of strengths I didn’t even know I had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.telehealthpolicy.us/about/staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mei Kwong\u003c/a>, executive director of the Center for Connected Health Policy in Sacramento, says telehealth services have the potential to remove many barriers to good health care in rural America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But policies that regulate which telehealth services get paid for “lag way behind the technology,” Kwong says. Many policies are 10 to 15 years behind what the technology is able to do, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, high-resolution photos can now be taken – and sent anywhere digitally — of skin conditions that many doctors say are better than “the naked eye looking at the condition,” she says. But the policies on the books of what Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers will pay for often means these services are not fully covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s unfortunate, Kwong says, especially for underserved communities where there is a shortage of specialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes are starting to be made in state, federal and private insurance policies, Kwong says. But it’s “slow going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=With+Rural+Health+Care+Stretched+Thin%2C+More+Patients+Turn+To+Telehealth+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartsgrove co-ordinates telehealth for the \u003ca href=\"https://chapa-de.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapa-de Indian Health Clinic\u003c/a>, which is a 10-minute drive from Hills’s home. Hill would sit in a comfy chair facing a screen in a small private room, Hartsgrove explained, to see and talk with her counselor in an otherwise traditional therapy session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill thought it sounded “a bit impersonal;” but was desperate for the counseling. She agreed to give it a try.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759542\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_029_a-copy_custom-f3228875c407b98325b47961a319f0152f6037f1-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_029_a-copy_custom-f3228875c407b98325b47961a319f0152f6037f1-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_029_a-copy_custom-f3228875c407b98325b47961a319f0152f6037f1-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coordinator Brandy Hartsgrove demonstrates how the telehealth connection works at The Chapa-de Indian Health Clinic in Grass Valley, Calif. Via this video screen, patients can consult doctors hundreds of miles away. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hill is one of a growing number of Americans turning to telehealth appointments with medical providers in the wake of widespread hospital closings in remote communities, and a shortage of local primary care doctors, specialists and other providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-distance doctor-to-doctor consultations via video also fall under the “telehealth” or “telemedicine” rubric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent NPR poll of rural Americans found that nearly a quarter have used some kind of telehealth service within the past few years; 14% say they received a diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or other health care professional using email, text messaging, live text chat, a mobile app, or a live video like FaceTime or Skype. And 15% say they have received a diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or other health professional over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/rural-telehealth-20190517?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don’t see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those survey findings are part of the second of \u003ca href=\"https://media.npr.org/documents/2019/may/NPR-RWJF-HARVARD_Rural_Poll_Part_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two recent polls on rural life and health\u003c/a> conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chapa-de clinic offers telehealth services not only for consultations in behavioral health and psychiatry, but also in cardiology, nephrology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_085_a-copy_custom-1a637914e39a25b065a49562157a54ac7fdeb747-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"The Chapa-de Indian Health Clinic building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_085_a-copy_custom-1a637914e39a25b065a49562157a54ac7fdeb747-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_085_a-copy_custom-1a637914e39a25b065a49562157a54ac7fdeb747-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chapa-de Indian Health Clinic in Grass Valley, Calif., offers telehealth services for various specialties, including dermatology, gastroenterology and psychiatry. \u003ccite>(Salgu Wissmath for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hill feels fortunate; she knows most rural health facilities don’t include telehealth services, which means most patients living in remote areas would need their own broadband internet access at home to get therapy online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s out of reach for many, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/robert-blendon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert J. Blendon\u003c/a>, co-director of NPR’s poll and professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard Chan School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll found that one in five rural Americans say getting access to high-speed internet is a problem for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blendon says advances in online technology have brought a “revolution” in healthcare that has left many rural patients behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They lose the ability to contact their physicians, fill prescriptions and get follow-up information without having to go see a health professional,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critical care pediatrician \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/publish/providerbio/children/516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Marcin\u003c/a> at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, directs the University of California, Davis, Center for Health and Technology and regularly consults via a telehealth monitor with primary care doctors in remote hospitals in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re able to put the telemedicine cart [virtually] at the patient’s bedside,” Marcin says, “and within minutes our physicians are able to see the child and talk with the family members and help assist in the care that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If not for telehealth, Marcin says, the costs of getting what should be routine care “are significant barriers for those living in rural communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have patients that drive to our Sacramento offices and they have to drive the night before,” he says, “and spend the night in a hotel because it’s a five-hour trip each way.” And there are additional costs for many patients, he says, such as childcare services, and missed days of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With telehealth, “a video is truly worth a thousand words,” he says; it can mean patients don’t have to make costly time-consuming trips to see a specialist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Hill initially had reservations about meeting with a therapist online, she says she’s been amazed by how helpful the sessions have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She gives me assignments and works me really hard,” Hill says, “and I have grown so much — especially just in the last few months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her latest assignment in therapy: writing down positive characteristics of herself. Initially, she could only come up with three: loyalty, compassion and resilience. But the therapist questioned that, and encouraged Hill to consider that there might be more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11759544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11759544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_220_a_custom-38c1aa4ffa8a0888af2fd48aee63e1b05914c810-s800-c85-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Jill Hill in a harden is touching tall pink flowers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_220_a_custom-38c1aa4ffa8a0888af2fd48aee63e1b05914c810-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/20190627_npr_telemedicine_220_a_custom-38c1aa4ffa8a0888af2fd48aee63e1b05914c810-s800-c85-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hill says she’s in a ‘super growth” mode these days psychologically, and says the support she’s received in therapy has been key to that. 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People can have high levels of both and still do pretty well until something else shows up in the brain: inflammation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like having the highest sensitivity computer up there and throwing coffee on it,” explains Fillit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So researchers are working to identify biomarkers for inflammation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also working on a biomarker that indicates the health of synapses, the connections between brain cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weakening synapses are one of the surest signs of Alzheimer’s, Fillit says. “So we’re funding a clinical trial at a company that is going to use this biomarker as a measure of how well their drug is preserving synapses in the hippocampus of people with Alzheimer’s disease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s are still a work in progress. 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"content": "\u003cp>Not long after she finished her medical residency at Stanford University about a decade ago, Nadine Burke Harris got to work as a pediatrician in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=336&v=ozflNOVzd6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayview-Hunters Point\u003c/a> neighborhood of San Francisco. She \u003ca href=\"https://centerforyouthwellness.org/about-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded and became CEO of a clinic\u003c/a> there, focused on addressing health disparities in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in talking with those children and their families, she says, that she first realized how many of her patients experiencing the worst health outcomes — those with the highest levels of chronic asthma, for example — were also living with significant adversity, such as growing up in a household where a parent was mentally ill, abusive or substance dependent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11687798,news_11703271' label='Related Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, those conversations led her to the expanding research on \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/acestudy/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adverse childhood experiences\u003c/a>, or ACEs, and their \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/17/648710859/childhood-trauma-and-its-lifelong-health-effects-more-prevalent-among-minorities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profound, lifelong health effects\u003c/a>. The term “ACEs” has been used since the 1990s to describe the abuse, neglect and other potentially traumatic experiences estimated to afflict more than 34 million U.S. children under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke Harris has dedicated much of her career to spreading the word to fellow doctors and the public about ACEs and the dangers of this toxic stress to children. She champions a multidisciplinary approach to helping these kids and teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/01/23/578280721/what-do-asthma-heart-disease-and-cancer-have-in-common-maybe-childhood-trauma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview \u003c/a>last year, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/578679908/the-deepest-well-healing-the-long-term-effects-of-childhood-adversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her book\u003c/a>, \u003cem>The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, \u003c/em>was published,\u003cem> \u003c/em>Burke Harris told NPR’s Cory Turner, “We all need to be part of the solution. If we each take … our little piece, it’s nuts how far we’ll be able to go, together as a society, in terms of solving this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom took Burke Harris up on her challenge, appointing her the first-ever surgeon general of California. Newsom cites the toxic stress of childhood trauma as among the root causes “of many of the most harmful and persistent health challenges facing Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Take the ACE Quiz' link1='https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean,Take The ACE Quiz and Learn What It Does And Does Not Mean']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR’s Erika Stallings recently spoke with Burke Harris about her work and about what it means to her, particularly as a black woman, to serve as her state’s first surgeon general — one of only three such positions in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Interview Highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the role of racism and discrimination in high maternal mortality, particularly among black women, who are \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pregnancy-mortality-surveillance-system.htm?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Freproductivehealth%2Fmaternalinfanthealth%2Fpmss.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cstrong>three to four times more likely to die\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> in childbirth than white women. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health equity is one of the priority areas for my role. I’m currently working to understand better what the California Department of Public Health’s approach has been on addressing this issue. I also want to get a better understanding of what the drivers are behind what we’re seeing in maternal mortality and to see [to] what extent we can understand the impact of toxic stress and cumulative adversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My strong suspicion is that there is a connection, but right now I am working on pulling together the resources to be able to take a deeper look at questions like that and how [my office] might work together with other offices to support the statewide response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the possible links between childhood adversity and homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you look at the biggest drivers of homelessness in California, domestic violence is a major driver, as well as mental health and substance dependence issues. When you look at the impact of childhood adversity on all three of those issues, it’s massive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I’ve been hearing over and over again on my listening tour around the state is that childhood adversity is a “root cause issue.” So I think we have a tremendous opportunity to get at the root of the root and make some changes in the way our systems work. For example, beginning with \u003ca href=\"https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/142/1_MeetingAbstract/349\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">universal screening for ACEs\u003c/a> and figuring out how we are developing a coordinated response, so children and families can get the support that they need in a two-generation fashion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Newsom’s allocation of $45 million to implement the screening of all Medi-Cal recipients for adverse childhood experiences and her role in expanding such screening beyond California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I’m the surgeon general for California, I believe we should be doing early identification and early intervention globally. That was the work I did \u003ca href=\"https://centerforyouthwellness.org/building-a-movement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in my previous role\u003c/a>, and I feel in my current role I have an opportunity to be a champion of that. [Recently] I was in Virginia meeting with the first lady of Virginia and the secretary for health and human services in Virginia about the importance of ACEs screening and early identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s go back to the maternal mortality issue. One of the biggest drivers of maternal mortality is increased risk of chronic conditions, such as heart diseases, diabetes, etc. We know that childhood adversity dramatically increases the risk of [those kinds of chronic conditions]. What would it be like if every OB-GYN in the country were able to do some type of assessment of cumulative adversity of the patients they were caring for, assessing their risk and being able to proactively do interventions to support and protect the health of their patients?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what it means to be the state’s first surgeon general — especially as a woman of\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>color\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was in high school, my aunt, who is a physician in Chicago, took me to a “black women in medicine” conference. I remember looking around the room and being like, “Holy moly!” Because, I mean, it was a whole ballroom filled with black women in medicine. And that really had a lasting effect for me. I do believe that if we can see it, we can be it. And growing up as a black girl in the United States, I certainly faced my share of obstacles on the way. So it’s very, very meaningful to me to be able to stand in this role as an immigrant. My family came from Jamaica to the U.S. As a woman and as a woman of color, it’s something that I’m very proud of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On inspiring the next generation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first came into the role, my first week on the job, one of my first speaking events was one put on by the black caucus in the California legislature. And as I was getting up to set up my slides and preparing — I had arrived early — there was a young boy who came up to me. And he was maybe 9 years old. And he came up to shake my hand and say hello. He said, “I just wanted to meet you. My mom took me out of school today so that I could meet the first black surgeon general of California.” It’s memorable. It makes me proud to be in this role. And I know that it was meaningful for that child and meaningful for his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erika Stallings is an attorney and freelance writer based in New York City. Her work focuses on health care disparities, with a focus on breast cancer and genetics. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, \u003c/em>New York \u003cem>magazine, Jezebel and \u003c/em>O, The Oprah Magazine\u003cem>. Find her on Twitter: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/quidditch424\">@quidditch424\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes in the city on Tuesday. The city is the corporate home of \u003ca href=\"https://www.juul.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juul Labs\u003c/a>, the biggest producer of e-cigarettes in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance would make the sale of e-cigarettes \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=7111897&GUID=7C3912E3-BB56-420D-896E-6FEA1391287D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal in brick-and-mortar stores\u003c/a>. It would also prohibit online sales when shipping to San Francisco addresses. 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For some reason, the FDA has so far refused to follow the law. If the federal government is not going to act, San Francisco will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Ted Kwong, spokesman for Juul\"]‘This full prohibition will drive former adult smokers who successfully switched to vapor products back to deadly cigarettes.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed has ten days to sign the legislation, which she has said she will do. 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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that young people who vape may be \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/Quick-Facts-on-the-Risks-of-E-cigarettes-for-Kids-Teens-and-Young-Adults.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to start smoking traditional cigarettes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton, who co-wrote the city’s ordinance, said he’s disgusted with Juul and similar companies, who he said are “putting profits before the health of young people, and people in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spent a few decades fighting big tobacco in the form of cigarettes,” Walton said. “Now we have to do it again in the form of e-cigarettes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton said even with the tobacco age limit, vaping devices are commonly confiscated from students in the city’s middle and high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second ordinance, which prevents the manufacture, distribution and sale of e-cigarettes on City property, takes direct aim at Juul Labs, which leases space from the city on San Francisco’s Pier 70. 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The software engineer smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for twenty years, and smoking e-cigarettes has reduced his regular cigarette habit to two to three a day. He said he feels better physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman supported a ban on flavored tobacco that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441395/sf-voters-may-ban-vape-flavors-menthol-cigarettes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city voters passed last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like it was good to get rid of the fruit flavors for kids,” he said, “but this feels like maybe a step too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said if e-cigarettes are banned, he would try to quit nicotine altogether. 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Miriam Zouzounis is a third-generation owner of the store. She said the e-cigarette ban will hurt the market’s bottom line. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Small businesses in San Francisco are concerned the ban will hurt their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miriam Zouzounis and her family own convenience store Ted’s Market near downtown San Francisco. She said e-cigarettes are an “anchor” product, meaning they draw people into the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people come and want to purchase something at the store and we don’t have that exact item that they want, they’re not going to buy the rest of the items that they might on that trip: a drink or a sandwich,” Zouzounis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Jay Friedman, San Francisco resident\"]‘I feel like it was good to get rid of the fruit flavors for kids, but this feels like maybe a step too far.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said sales from e-cigarettes account for at least $200 to $300 a day. As a board member of the Arab American Grocers Association, she believes laws like this mostly affect immigrant-owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abbey Chaitin, 15, is a San Francisco resident. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Dennis Herrera co-authored the ordinance, and celebrated the final vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a decisive step to help prevent another generation of San Francisco children from becoming addicted to nicotine,” he said. “This temporary moratorium wouldn’t be necessary if the federal government had done its job. E-cigarettes are a product that, by law, are not allowed on the market without FDA review. For some reason, the FDA has so far refused to follow the law. If the federal government is not going to act, San Francisco will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed has ten days to sign the legislation, which she has said she will do. The laws will take effect seven months from that date, in early 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juul responded to the final vote in a written statement to media, saying the ban will cause new challenges for the city. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This full prohibition will drive former adult smokers who successfully switched to vapor products back to deadly cigarettes, deny the opportunity to switch for current adult smokers, and create a thriving black market instead of addressing the actual causes of underage access and use,” wrote Juul spokesman Ted Kwong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under federal law, the minimum age to buy tobacco products is 18 years old. In California, however, that age is 21. Despite this, use of e-cigarettes, or “vaping,” has skyrocketed among teenagers nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.monitoringthefuture.org//pubs/monographs/mtf-vol1_2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in five high school seniors\u003c/a> reported vaping in the past month. That’s almost double the number who reported vaping\u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/news-releases/2018/12/teens-using-vaping-devices-in-record-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the year before\u003c/a>. Even eighth graders are vaping in record numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These increases come after \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/adolescent-development/substance-use/drugs/tobacco/trends/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">years of declines\u003c/a> in teenagers smoking traditional cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health officials are concerned about the rising number of teenagers using e-cigarettes, as nicotine can \u003ca href=\"https://e-cigarettes.surgeongeneral.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">harm a young person’s developing brain\u003c/a>. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that young people who vape may be \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/Quick-Facts-on-the-Risks-of-E-cigarettes-for-Kids-Teens-and-Young-Adults.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to start smoking traditional cigarettes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton, who co-wrote the city’s ordinance, said he’s disgusted with Juul and similar companies, who he said are “putting profits before the health of young people, and people in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We spent a few decades fighting big tobacco in the form of cigarettes,” Walton said. “Now we have to do it again in the form of e-cigarettes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton said even with the tobacco age limit, vaping devices are commonly confiscated from students in the city’s middle and high schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second ordinance, which prevents the manufacture, distribution and sale of e-cigarettes on City property, takes direct aim at Juul Labs, which leases space from the city on San Francisco’s Pier 70. The ordinance is not retroactive, so it would not remove Juul from the company’s current space, but it would prevent other e-cigarette makers from renting city property in the future. In a statement, Kwong, the Juul spokesperson, wrote that regardless, the company does not “manufacture, distribute or sell our product from this space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juul’s vaping device was introduced in 2015. It’s small, sleek and discrete, looking similar to a flash drive. The company now controls 70 percent of the vaping market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Juul Labs said they share the city’s goal of keeping e-cigarettes away from young people. They said they’ve made \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.juul.com/2019/02/18/action-plan-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it harder for underage buyers to purchase Juul off their website\u003c/a>, and have shut down Juul accounts on Facebook and Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also argues, the prohibition “of vapor products for all adults in San Francisco will not effectively address underage use and will leave cigarettes on shelves as the only choice for adult smokers, even though they kill 40,000 Californians every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton doesn’t buy that argument, however. He said it’s simply, “trading one nicotine addiction for another.” What’s more, he’s concerned that for every adult that might benefit, dozens of young people could become addicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco resident Jay Friedman thinks the complete e-cigarette ban goes too far. The software engineer smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for twenty years, and smoking e-cigarettes has reduced his regular cigarette habit to two to three a day. He said he feels better physically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman supported a ban on flavored tobacco that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441395/sf-voters-may-ban-vape-flavors-menthol-cigarettes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city voters passed last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like it was good to get rid of the fruit flavors for kids,” he said, “but this feels like maybe a step too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman said if e-cigarettes are banned, he would try to quit nicotine altogether. But, “there would be a point in a moment of weakness where I’d just end up buying a pack of smokes again and then it’s just a slippery slope from there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11757142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11757142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Ted's Market is a convenience store in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco. Miriam Zouzounis is a third-generation owner of the store. She said the e-cigarette ban will hurt the market's bottom line.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145-536x402.jpg 536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/IMG_2145.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted’s Market is a convenience store in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco. Miriam Zouzounis is a third-generation owner of the store. She said the e-cigarette ban will hurt the market’s bottom line. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Small businesses in San Francisco are concerned the ban will hurt their bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miriam Zouzounis and her family own convenience store Ted’s Market near downtown San Francisco. She said e-cigarettes are an “anchor” product, meaning they draw people into the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people come and want to purchase something at the store and we don’t have that exact item that they want, they’re not going to buy the rest of the items that they might on that trip: a drink or a sandwich,” Zouzounis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last December, Brighid FitzGibbon’s son, Evan, entered a catatonic state. Acute psychosis had hit suddenly a few weeks earlier, toward the end of fall semester of his sophomore year at Bard College in upstate New York. Gripped by terrifying delusions, his body began to shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FitzGibbon and her husband, Taylor, rushed their 20-year-old son to a hospital in Sonoma County, where they live. An acquaintance told them about a promising program for young people experiencing early psychosis. But the family quickly discovered a problem: the program didn’t exist in their county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, geography creates significant barriers to people getting early psychosis treatment, as it does for array of other evidence-based mental health treatments. That’s partly because California’s 58 counties have 58 different public mental health programs, each with their own set of covered services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='mental-health' label='more on mental health']“If you get on a bus in Northern California and take it to Southern California, you get different services depending on where you step out,” said Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association, a lobbying group for the state’s hospitals. “That’s just inequitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Tom Insel, whom Gov. Gavin Newsom recently appointed as his top mental health advisor, has likened the fragmented system to playing the piano with \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/if-you-think-the-system-works-youre-dead-wrong-a-discussion-on-californias-mental-health-system/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">58 fingers\u003c/a>\u003c/u>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no central leadership, really,” said Insel, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “If you ask, ‘What are the counties trying to accomplish? What are their goals? What is their North Star?’ I can’t tell you that. There’s a North Star in L.A. County, in San Mateo, in Alameda. They’re not the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel and many other mental health experts say California offers too little guidance and oversight to ensure fair access to mental health treatment, missing opportunities to spread best practices from individual counties statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants the state to identify specific goals for mental health outcomes, such as reducing suicides and the incarceration of people with mental illness. He also wants the state to help counties achieve those goals. Among his top priorities: early psychosis intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most kids who can get that kind of treatment soon after the onset, they’ll do quite well,” Insel said. “They can go on to really have a life that does not happen today with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]bout 100,000 adolescents and young adults nationwide experience first-episode psychosis each year, \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/raise/fact-sheet-first-episode-psychosis.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to federal figures\u003c/a>\u003c/u>—and three out of 100 people will experience psychosis at some point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, policymakers and mental health providers have grown enthusiastic about early psychosis intervention programs, which typically involve intensive counseling, psychiatric treatment and peer and family support, with trained providers working closely together to coordinate each patient’s care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the federal government set aside 10% of states’ Community Mental Health Block Grants for early psychosis programming; in California, that totals $9.5 million. Legislators this year have proposed allocating $20 million for early psychosis programming in California’s new budget, which is $5 million less than the governor sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756756\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11756756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dennison17_1-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dennison17_1-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dennison17_1-400x600-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Marie Frey, 18, attended an early psychosis program in San Diego after she began to hear demons as a 12-year-old. She’s the author of “Brain XP: Living with Mental Illness, A Young Teenager’s Perspective.” \u003ccite>(Family photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Done right, research shows, the programs can dramatically help young people experiencing psychotic symptoms, with lasting benefits. The converse is also true: The longer psychosis goes untreated, the worse the outcome. People with an initial diagnosis of psychosis are approximately \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2670697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight times\u003c/a>\u003c/u> as likely to die during the year following their diagnosis as people in the general population. The cause is often suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one national study, clients in early psychosis programs stay in treatment longer, experience fewer symptoms are more involved in work or school, compared with patients in other care settings—provided they get into treatment fast. \u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17050480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Canadian study\u003c/a> published last year in the American Journal of Psychiatry showed that people who participated in early psychosis intervention after their first episode were four times less likely to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, on average, individuals experiencing psychosis went without treatment for 74 weeks. Other countries have dramatically reduced this number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Marie Frey, now 18, attended a program in San Diego after she began to hear demons as a 12-year-old. It offered personal and occupational therapy, as well as help with mindfulness, medication and school. Frey found comfort in talking with peers in similar circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They helped me realize, not just how to cope—they helped me feel like my own self again,” she said. “I went in there ready to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early psychosis interventions can target young people with symptoms that put them at high risk for psychosis, or those who have had their first experience of psychosis. Those in the first group might hear whispers and wonder if their brain is playing tricks on them; the second group is more likely to believe the voices are real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, only about two dozen counties have early psychosis programs. Most lack the money or capacity to make them available to all county residents. Often, the only people eligible are those without insurance or on Medi-Cal for low-income Californians, though in some cases private insurers pay for patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]G[/dropcap]rowing up, Evan had always been a strong student, and a talented musician and athlete, his mother said. But as he approached the end of his fall sophomore semester, he became increasingly worried about choosing a major and meeting music deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several nights, he stopped sleeping. On his 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> birthday, a friend rushed him to the emergency room. He received medication to help him sleep, but continued to get worse. His father raced across the country to bring him back to Sebastopol, assuming the comfort of home would help. Then the delusions started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his parents heard about the early psychosis program, they said they begged their insurance provider, Kaiser Permanente, for a referral, but Kaiser refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Dr. Sameer Awsare, associate executive director of Kaiser’s Northern California medical group, said Kaiser is not simply an ‘insurer’” that pays for outside services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser Permanente is an integrated health care system that provides expert, evidence-based medical care for our members, including in the area of psychosis,” Awsare said. He added that Kaiser follows federal “best practices” for cognitive behavioral treatment of psychosis and multi-family group treatment, and when clinically appropriate, Kaiser does refer members to outside programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited patient confidentiality in declining to discuss Evan’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11756762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-1920x1200.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brighid Fitzgibbon with her son, Evan, who was a sophomore at Bard College when acute psychosis hit. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Evan’s parents didn’t feel that what they said Kaiser was offering—a general intensive outpatient program in which most patients didn’t have psychosis, a meeting with a psychiatrist every few weeks, and therapy every week or so—was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Evan’s father drove him every week or so to the UC Davis Early Diagnosis and Preventive Treatment Clinic, a state-of-the-art program in Sacramento. The drive was about four hours round-trip, and the family paid thousands of dollars for his care, with the help of a GoFundMe account set up by his elementary school teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evan stabilized and began to improve, his mother said. But the long drives wore on her son and his father, who had severe back pain. And the out-of-pocket costs became prohibitive. Coming from so far away, it was difficult for Evan to participate in the peer groups. Although Brighid FitzGibbon said they would have liked to continue, they made the difficult choice to stop a few months into the program in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” said FitzGibbon, whose son gave permission for her to share his story. “It’s just disheartening to see how broken the system is. I think we did the best we could.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ill Carter, who recently became Sonoma County’s mental health director, said he is committed to bringing an early psychosis program there, calling it “one of the best things going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the kind of thing we in the mental health field have been waiting for,” he said. “Historically, schizophrenia and other thought disorders have the potential really just to ravage someone’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter previously worked for the California Institute of Mental Health, leading efforts to disseminate evidence-based practices, including early psychosis treatment. He also served as mental health director of Napa County, which beginning in 2014 has made early psychosis treatment available to any county resident who needed it, regardless of insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Sonoma County mental health director Bill Carter']‘Historically, schizophrenia and other thought disorders have the potential really just to ravage someone’s life.’[/pullquote]Napa managed this in part due to funding from One Mind, a nonprofit founded by the local Staglin family, whose son, Brandon, recovered from schizophrenia in the 1990s and is now the president. The Napa program also receives support from local vintners, a large charity auction and a variety of federal and state funding sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Carter’s commitment to bringing early psychosis programming to Sonoma County, he has encountered significant obstacles. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If you get on a bus in Northern California and take it to Southern California, you get different services depending on where you step out,” said Carmela Coyle, president and CEO of the California Hospital Association, a lobbying group for the state’s hospitals. “That’s just inequitable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Tom Insel, whom Gov. Gavin Newsom recently appointed as his top mental health advisor, has likened the fragmented system to playing the piano with \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/if-you-think-the-system-works-youre-dead-wrong-a-discussion-on-californias-mental-health-system/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">58 fingers\u003c/a>\u003c/u>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no central leadership, really,” said Insel, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “If you ask, ‘What are the counties trying to accomplish? What are their goals? What is their North Star?’ I can’t tell you that. There’s a North Star in L.A. County, in San Mateo, in Alameda. They’re not the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel and many other mental health experts say California offers too little guidance and oversight to ensure fair access to mental health treatment, missing opportunities to spread best practices from individual counties statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants the state to identify specific goals for mental health outcomes, such as reducing suicides and the incarceration of people with mental illness. He also wants the state to help counties achieve those goals. Among his top priorities: early psychosis intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For most kids who can get that kind of treatment soon after the onset, they’ll do quite well,” Insel said. “They can go on to really have a life that does not happen today with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>bout 100,000 adolescents and young adults nationwide experience first-episode psychosis each year, \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/raise/fact-sheet-first-episode-psychosis.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to federal figures\u003c/a>\u003c/u>—and three out of 100 people will experience psychosis at some point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, policymakers and mental health providers have grown enthusiastic about early psychosis intervention programs, which typically involve intensive counseling, psychiatric treatment and peer and family support, with trained providers working closely together to coordinate each patient’s care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, the federal government set aside 10% of states’ Community Mental Health Block Grants for early psychosis programming; in California, that totals $9.5 million. Legislators this year have proposed allocating $20 million for early psychosis programming in California’s new budget, which is $5 million less than the governor sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756756\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11756756\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dennison17_1-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dennison17_1-400x600.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/Dennison17_1-400x600-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Marie Frey, 18, attended an early psychosis program in San Diego after she began to hear demons as a 12-year-old. She’s the author of “Brain XP: Living with Mental Illness, A Young Teenager’s Perspective.” \u003ccite>(Family photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Done right, research shows, the programs can dramatically help young people experiencing psychotic symptoms, with lasting benefits. The converse is also true: The longer psychosis goes untreated, the worse the outcome. People with an initial diagnosis of psychosis are approximately \u003cu>\u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2670697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight times\u003c/a>\u003c/u> as likely to die during the year following their diagnosis as people in the general population. The cause is often suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to one national study, clients in early psychosis programs stay in treatment longer, experience fewer symptoms are more involved in work or school, compared with patients in other care settings—provided they get into treatment fast. \u003ca href=\"https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17050480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Canadian study\u003c/a> published last year in the American Journal of Psychiatry showed that people who participated in early psychosis intervention after their first episode were four times less likely to die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, on average, individuals experiencing psychosis went without treatment for 74 weeks. Other countries have dramatically reduced this number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Marie Frey, now 18, attended a program in San Diego after she began to hear demons as a 12-year-old. It offered personal and occupational therapy, as well as help with mindfulness, medication and school. Frey found comfort in talking with peers in similar circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They helped me realize, not just how to cope—they helped me feel like my own self again,” she said. “I went in there ready to give up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early psychosis interventions can target young people with symptoms that put them at high risk for psychosis, or those who have had their first experience of psychosis. Those in the first group might hear whispers and wonder if their brain is playing tricks on them; the second group is more likely to believe the voices are real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, only about two dozen counties have early psychosis programs. Most lack the money or capacity to make them available to all county residents. Often, the only people eligible are those without insurance or on Medi-Cal for low-income Californians, though in some cases private insurers pay for patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">G\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>rowing up, Evan had always been a strong student, and a talented musician and athlete, his mother said. But as he approached the end of his fall sophomore semester, he became increasingly worried about choosing a major and meeting music deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several nights, he stopped sleeping. On his 20\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> birthday, a friend rushed him to the emergency room. He received medication to help him sleep, but continued to get worse. His father raced across the country to bring him back to Sebastopol, assuming the comfort of home would help. Then the delusions started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his parents heard about the early psychosis program, they said they begged their insurance provider, Kaiser Permanente, for a referral, but Kaiser refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Dr. Sameer Awsare, associate executive director of Kaiser’s Northern California medical group, said Kaiser is not simply an ‘insurer’” that pays for outside services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kaiser Permanente is an integrated health care system that provides expert, evidence-based medical care for our members, including in the area of psychosis,” Awsare said. He added that Kaiser follows federal “best practices” for cognitive behavioral treatment of psychosis and multi-family group treatment, and when clinically appropriate, Kaiser does refer members to outside programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited patient confidentiality in declining to discuss Evan’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11756762\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11756762\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800-1920x1200.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/CALMatters-FitzGibbon_015-2880x1800.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brighid Fitzgibbon with her son, Evan, who was a sophomore at Bard College when acute psychosis hit. \u003ccite>(Penni Gladstone/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Evan’s parents didn’t feel that what they said Kaiser was offering—a general intensive outpatient program in which most patients didn’t have psychosis, a meeting with a psychiatrist every few weeks, and therapy every week or so—was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Evan’s father drove him every week or so to the UC Davis Early Diagnosis and Preventive Treatment Clinic, a state-of-the-art program in Sacramento. The drive was about four hours round-trip, and the family paid thousands of dollars for his care, with the help of a GoFundMe account set up by his elementary school teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evan stabilized and began to improve, his mother said. But the long drives wore on her son and his father, who had severe back pain. And the out-of-pocket costs became prohibitive. Coming from so far away, it was difficult for Evan to participate in the peer groups. Although Brighid FitzGibbon said they would have liked to continue, they made the difficult choice to stop a few months into the program in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know,” said FitzGibbon, whose son gave permission for her to share his story. “It’s just disheartening to see how broken the system is. 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Some wondered why they were questioned by officers who were involved in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute they saw what happened to his face, the decision was made that they needed to charge him with something,” said Karen Silver, Sonoma County deputy public defender and Alvarez’s attorney. “I think it was real clear once Mr. Alvarez’s face was examined, before he even went to the hospital: You better cover your ass with something that shows that that was proper force.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital police Officer Terence McCullough told state investigators that there was internal pressure to arrest Alvarez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCullough said his sergeant told him: “We are looking to make an arrest.” The urgency to arrest Alvarez was due to a peace officer being injured, according to McCullough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody squeezed me to do anything special because it was the chief’s kid,” McCullough told state investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11755509\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11755509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/OLES-Crim-Allegations-800x326.jpg\" alt=\"An excerpt from a Sept. 21, 2017, state Office of Law Enforcement Support investigative report outlining potential criminal charges against Napa State Hospital police officers Michael Hauscarriague and Terence McCullough.\" width=\"800\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/OLES-Crim-Allegations-800x326.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/OLES-Crim-Allegations-160x65.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/OLES-Crim-Allegations-1020x415.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/OLES-Crim-Allegations-1200x489.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/OLES-Crim-Allegations.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from a Sept. 21, 2017, state Office of Law Enforcement Support investigative report outlining potential criminal charges against Napa State Hospital police officers Michael Hauscarriague and Terence McCullough. \u003ccite>((Via California Department of State Hospitals))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A therapist expressed shock when she learned from state investigators that Alvarez had been arrested and charged with serious felonies, including resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer resulting in great bodily injury. 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But medical staff told investigators that this type of behavior is not unusual for the patients they deal with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 24, 2017, McCullough arrested Alvarez and suggested charging four felonies: resisting arrest, criminal threats, battery on a peace officer with injury and battery causing great bodily injury. He was booked into Napa County Jail. Police Chief Dominique Hauscarriague appears to have signed the paperwork transferring Alvarez to county jail the day after he was injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez’s primary doctor, Dr. Domingo Languitan, also told investigators and Alvarez’s attorney that there was internal pressure to send the patient to jail. He said that his supervisor told him to write the required medical recommendation. Languitan had never done this before, he said, and it was not his opinion that criminal charges should be filed or that Alvarez should be sent to jail. Languitan did not return a phone call seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauscarriague, Truong and Donaldson all testified at a July 6, 2017, preliminary hearing. They all said Alvarez’s fists were clenched and his back was toward the officers when Hauscarriague ran toward him and grabbed him from behind. They testified that Alvarez turned and pushed against Hauscarriague, and then they both fell into the wall. Based on the officers’ testimony, a judge found the charges against Alvarez credible and he was held in jail for three more months before the case was dismissed by prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez’s attorney, Karen Silver, said the officers clearly committed perjury in that testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those cops lied,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No part of the state’s investigation considered potential perjury, however, according to DSH spokesman Montano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A very different story emerged during the state’s investigation, conducted by the Office of Law Enforcement Support, a little-known oversight agency created in 2015 after concerns about patient safety at state hospitals and developmental centers. Civilian staff and patients who were interviewed by investigators said that Alvarez was agitated and “mouthing off,” but was never a direct threat to anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of people were in the courtyard that day. State investigators interviewed five patients and six medical staff, none of whom reported seeing Alvarez fight back against police. Staff members said they were surprised when Hauscarriague “tackled” Alvarez, taking him into the wall. Because Alvarez was on his own in the yard, was not an imminent threat and did not have a weapon, the procedure would have been to try to talk to the patient and get him to move into a side room to calm down.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" ]After the internal investigation, the Department of State Hospitals initially recommended firing all four officers. One had his pay reduced for 10 months. The others were retrained.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nA therapist laughed when state investigators told her about Donaldson’s description that the comparatively slight and elderly Alvarez dragged Hauscarriague as he attempted a tackle — a description Donaldson repeated during sworn testimony. The therapist said that didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A psychiatric technician also chuckled and disputed the description that Alvarez turned toward and threatened the officers before Hauscarriague tackled him, the internal investigation says. That technician was also quoted in police reports saying that Alvarez verbally threatened the officers, which she told investigators she never said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State investigators referred Hauscarriague for potential criminal charges of patient abuse and battery to Napa County prosecutors. They also referred McCullough for potential false arrest and perjury charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether McCullough is facing discipline. 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With a weed whacker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also brought him a fragrant rose vine clipped from a shaggy heirloom bush in front of our house, hydrangeas in a cup, a Meyer lemon from our tree and the latest family news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph Edward Borg—father of seven, lover of nature, long-time elementary school teacher, ex-Marine, avid reader, storyteller, amateur historian and adventurer—rests exactly 77 steps from our kitchen door, up a gentle hillside, in the St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery, among long-gone ranchers, farmers, hippies, poets and California pioneers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11753912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37668_All.Borgs_.1980s-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11753912\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37668_All.Borgs_.1980s-qut-1020x699.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37668_All.Borgs_.1980s-qut-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37668_All.Borgs_.1980s-qut-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37668_All.Borgs_.1980s-qut-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37668_All.Borgs_.1980s-qut-1200x822.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/RS37668_All.Borgs_.1980s-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Borg Family in 1984. 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Being 77 steps from our door, I often sense dad’s presence and feel he is looking out over us—and looking out for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sometimes visit him privately when I’m stressed or have a particular problem. He keeps my behavior in check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think he knows when I make a mistake or screw things up. And I am quite certain he is proud when I do good or get something right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad worked hard all his life for his family, and he and my mom managed to raise seven children on a public school teacher’s salary, plus the odd jobs they took to help make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was tough, and could be grumpy when it was warranted—a trait I’ve inherited, but I mostly remember him for his overly goofy, infectious laugh and the pride he experienced in seeing his kids grow up and watching our adventures and friendships and successes. 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He was such a good guy; he didn’t deserve this fate. He should’ve had an enduring happy retirement. Yet through it all he soldiered on, mellowed out and accepted his fate, in large part motivated by his faith, and the ongoing care and love of my mom and our family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our early years growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, dad used to line up all five Borg boys in the family room and take turns giving us Marine Corps-style crew cuts with an electric razor, sometimes inadvertently trimming parts of our ears, but saving on barber costs. As we got older and it became more fashionable and acceptable, dad let us boys grow our hair out long, which we all did in part to avoid those brutal haircuts. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now, at least once a year, I return the favor and give his gravesite a little trim. Looking good, Pops. 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Being 77 steps from our door, I often sense dad’s presence and feel he is looking out over us—and looking out for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sometimes visit him privately when I’m stressed or have a particular problem. He keeps my behavior in check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think he knows when I make a mistake or screw things up. And I am quite certain he is proud when I do good or get something right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad worked hard all his life for his family, and he and my mom managed to raise seven children on a public school teacher’s salary, plus the odd jobs they took to help make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was tough, and could be grumpy when it was warranted—a trait I’ve inherited, but I mostly remember him for his overly goofy, infectious laugh and the pride he experienced in seeing his kids grow up and watching our adventures and friendships and successes. 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