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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton called the incident a “devastating tragedy” that never should have occurred. He said he’s asking the two city agencies responsible for hospital safety — the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office and Department of Public Health — for detailed information on current safety protocols for the hospital and what changes will happen after the stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am waiting to see what happens as a result of investigations in terms of what actually took place,” he said. “After we see the investigation … we have to come up with policies and the protocols that are going to protect employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11927447\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11927447 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a suit with a blue tie speaks at a rally in front of a microphone.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS50006_047_SanFrancisco_JuneteenthKickoffRally_06172021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 10 Supervisor, Shamann Walton, at San Francisco City Hall on June 17, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walton said those policies could include ensuring there are metal detectors and other security protocols to prevent people from getting inside the facility with a weapon. He noted that he’s heard complaints from hospital staff about safety issues at San Francisco General.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s officials said that Arreichi had threatened a doctor who works at the HIV clinic before the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that every single employee and every single city and county facility is protected regardless of what your position is or what your profession is,” Walton said. “Our responsibility is to protect everyone at the hospital. And that goes for the employees, patients, and everyone who comes through the door. So that’s my focus.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a statement, the Department of Public Health thanked the staff who “acted bravely” during the attack and said the entire community is mourning this “devastating loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tragedy has deeply impacted our workforce. We have witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of love and kindness from staff, patients, and community members. Hundreds of people have come forward over the past several days to offer support, reflecting the profound impact our colleague had as a caregiver, friend, family member, and human being. Their dedication to serving others was evident in every aspect of their work, and they will be deeply missed,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors charged Arriechi on Monday with one count of murder, with an allegation that he used a deadly weapon in the commission of the murder. He will be arraigned on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators are asking for the public’s help — anyone with information can call the San Francisco Police Department Tip Line at 1-415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This week, two separate shootings on school property took place in Oakland, placing campuses on temporary lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Laney College athletic director and longtime football coach \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064112/suspect-arrested-in-shooting-of-oakland-laney-college-coach-john-beam\">John Beam died after being shot on campus Thursday\u003c/a>, Oakland police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days earlier, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063886/at-least-1-person-shot-at-oaklands-skyline-high-school\">a young person was shot at Skyline High School\u003c/a>, and two minors were taken into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must continue confronting the ongoing gun violence crisis that is robbing our community of safety and stealing futures,” said Oakland mayor Barbara Lee on Thursday. “This is a moment for our community to come together and address this violence with urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/\">firearms remain a stronghold in American culture and politics\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1184731316/gun-violence-epidemic-suicide-mass-shooting-public-health-emergency-chicago\">gun violence continues to be an epidemic\u003c/a> that makes the United States \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/briefing/guns-america-shooting-deaths.html\">an outlier compared to other countries\u003c/a> when it comes to the number of people injured and killed by others with guns. And while California’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/OGVP-Data-Report-2022.pdf\">rate of firearm-related mortality\u003c/a> is lower than the United States as a whole, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050674/california-democrats-could-ban-sale-of-new-glocks-one-of-the-most-popular-handguns\">some steps\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049635/court-strikes-down-california-ammunition-background-check-law\">varying success\u003c/a> towards curbing access, gun violence continues to impact the state — and the people of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of November 2025, at least 950 people in California have been killed this year by gun violence — which includes murder, accidental incidents and suicide — according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/\">data from the Gun Violence Archive\u003c/a>. While tragedy has struck communities of varying backgrounds, \u003ca href=\"https://everytownresearch.org/issue/impact-of-gun-violence-on-historically-marginalized-communities/\">gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/OGVP-Data-Report-2022.pdf\">particularly Black and Latino people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/OGVP-Data-Report-2022.pdf\">August 2023 report\u003c/a> by the California Department of Justice found that “gun homicide caused 38% of deaths among Black teenage males over [2020-2021], compared to 4% of deaths among white teenage males.” From 2019 to 2021, California authorities also found that there was a 2% increase in the number of domestic violence calls, with an 80% increase in firearms being used or threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun violence, whether it kills or not, can also ripple outward and bring trauma to many others around it — whether that’s the people who survive being shot, the loved ones of those who’ve died or folks who witness a shooting or are in the surrounding area when it happens. And surviving gun violence like this is “a lifelong journey,” said Keenon James, the director of Everytown Survivor Network, a survivors’ group that advocates for gun violence prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if it’s something that you get over in a year or some period of time,” said James, who was a child when \u003ca href=\"https://www.everytown.org/press/everytown-taps-keenon-james-as-director-of-the-everytown-survivor-network/\">his own brother was shot and killed in Takoma Park, Maryland, 30 years ago\u003c/a>. “The timetable is unknown, and it varies for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’ve been impacted by gun violence yourself, where can you find support around the Bay Area? Keep reading for a list of resources that can offer assistance to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jump straight to:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gunviolencesupport\">Which centers and hotlines offer support to gun violence survivors?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#victimscompensationcalifornia\">How can survivors apply for potential compensation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where can you find support after gun violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Go at your own pace …\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, don’t discount your need for support just because the gun violence in question wasn’t recent. Everytown Survivor Network’s James emphasizes that trauma “may manifest later on” and can be stirred up by “something that occurs later in life that makes you think back to that instance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going through that type of experience definitely changes your life,” he said, and you should seek the kind of support that feels best for you and your circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>… and be open to different sources of potential healing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaningful support after experiencing gun violence might not always take the form you — or others in your life — might expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10779105/eight-months-after-in-custody-death-a-brother-still-hunts-for-answers\">Derrick Benson\u003c/a>, a resource coordinator at Oakland-based advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> (APTP), told KQED after the Juneteenth tragedy that healing can look like many different things. For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/antipoliceterrorproject/p/C8dWgjdPrwW/?hl=en\">APTP pointed to organizations that provided acupuncture or herbal foot soaks\u003c/a> — both of which were offered at their Healing Portal event directly after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James said some people may also find respite in advocacy work, as “most gun violence survivors are focused on making their community safer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Advocacy allows us to make sure someone’s loved one continues to have a voice, that they’re remembered, and they’re not forgotten, ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca id=\"gunviolencesupport\">\u003c/a>Reach out to local support centers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is a non-exhaustive list of locations and hotlines around the Bay Area offering mental health support to people who have survived gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that costs and types of services offered can sometimes change, so be sure to clarify with these resources directly to ensure you’re getting what you need (and what you expect).\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/board/trauma-recovery-centers/\">California’s Trauma Recovery Centers\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://everytownsupportfund.org/everytown-survivor-network/\">Everytown Survivor Network\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesprograms.com/health-clinic\">People’s Program\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\">MH First Oakland\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/a>: 988 (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help\">National Institute of Mental Health\u003c/a>: 866-615-6464 (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crisistextline.org/\">Crisis Text Line\u003c/a>: Text HOME to 741741 (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cocofamilyjustice.org/\">Family Justice Center\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/twb-annual-report/\">The Women’s Building\u003c/a> (free or low-cost)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://stevefund.org/crisistextline/\">Steve Fund\u003c/a>: STEVE to 741741 (For young people of color)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareatrauma.com/\">Bay Area Trauma Center\u003c/a> (standard fee ranges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareatrauma.com/trauma-center-fees.html\">$150–$300 for a 50-minute session\u003c/a>, or whatever your insurance plan is. If you are a victim of a crime, it could possibly be free through the state — more on this below)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.traumarecoveryclinic.org/\">Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinical Services\u003c/a> (dependent on income for individual therapy, but ranges from $30–$150. Group therapy is $160; \u003ca href=\"https://www.traumarecoveryclinic.org/fees.html\">does not take insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also consult \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/get-help/\">CalVCB\u003c/a>’s or \u003ca href=\"https://211bayarea.org/topics/mental-health/\">211’s\u003c/a> database, which includes county-specific assistance, support and counseling. The database lists resources across the Bay Area. Your \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_cpgpcalvipgrant/\">county or city\u003c/a> may also have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/Public-Safety-Streets/Crime-Prevention/Violence-Prevention\">violence prevention program\u003c/a>, which often includes contacts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/violence-prevention/documents/dvp-funded-services-brochure_healing_06.22.24.pdf\">knowledgeable and funded organizations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, KQED published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881725/where-to-find-affordable-culturally-competent-therapy-in-bay-area-and-beyond\">guide to finding culturally competent therapy in the Bay Area\u003c/a> that addressed the needs this kind of inequity creates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11939606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue jacket holds a candle as he looks up, with other mourners around him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends and family of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting victims listen to speakers during a vigil in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Seek support from your health care provider (if you’re comfortable doing so)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone feels comfortable asking for support within the medical profession, Benson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that for many communities, especially Black and brown folks, going to the hospital or doctor’s can be “kind of iffy” due to the ongoing impacts of the history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/features/minority-medical-distrust\">bias and racism in medicine\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do decide to go to your primary care doctor, NPR has a guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/03/738497630/how-to-get-the-best-from-your-doctor\">advocating for yourself during the appointment\u003c/a>, which includes advice like coming prepared with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1172843588\">a list of priorities you want to discuss\u003c/a> and be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/08/739039046/how-to-pick-a-doctor-or-break-up-with-one\">ready to leave a doctor\u003c/a> who does not appear to be listening to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.opa.ca.gov/\">a state office dedicated to patient advocacy\u003c/a>, where you can find \u003ca href=\"https://www.opa.ca.gov/FilingComplaints/ConsumerAssistanceResourcesByCounty/\">county-specific resources\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.opa.ca.gov/filingcomplaints/resources_san_francisco/\">assistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who don’t feel comfortable seeking support from their health care provider, community organizations — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-events/2023/1/13/healing-justice-portal-at-tha-peoples-house\">APTP’s pop-up healing portals\u003c/a> — can alternatively help guide families to the resources they need for healing, Benson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"victimscompensationcalifornia\">\u003c/a>How does compensation for gun violence survivors work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each state has its own \u003ca href=\"https://everytownsupportfund.org/everytown-survivor-network/resources-for-victims-and-survivors-of-gun-violence/crime-victim-compensation-financial-assistance-after-a-crime/\">Crime Victim Compensation Program\u003c/a>, which is a board that may be able to provide financial support for victims of various crimes, including gun violence and their families. In California, that program is called the \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/board/\">California Victim Compensation Board\u003c/a>, or CalVCB. Your county may also have its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacda.org/victim-services/victim-witness-assistance-program/\">Victim Witness Assistance Center,\u003c/a> which could offer support to survivors of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everytown Survivor Network’s James urged people to turn to the funding that could be available to them, like state funding or supportive organizations. “There are many opportunities available, and I encourage people to take advantage of that opportunity to look into them,” he said — recommending that you “see what’s available, what might suit you and what might be accessible to you based on your health care needs, what your health coverage and benefits may be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/uploads/2024/04/Media_FactSheet_locked.pdf\">the CalVCB’s 2022–23 fiscal year\u003c/a>, the program received 39,000 applications and provided $49.7 million in compensation, with assault claims accounting for the largest share of the assistance provided. These funds cover services like burials (2023’s largest expense), income loss and relocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application and \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/how-compensation-works/\">instructions for applying for compensation\u003c/a> can be found on \u003ca href=\"https://online.victims.ca.gov/\">CalVCB’s website\u003c/a>. There is also a \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/forms/?vcb_service=&vcb_language=&search_keyword=samaritan\">Good Samaritan Compensation\u003c/a> application for those who attempted to help in a crisis and suffered personal injury, property damage or even death as a result..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You must \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/how-compensation-works/\">apply for compensation within seven years of the crime\u003c/a>, although it’s possible to \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/uploads/2021/07/Late-Filing-Consideration-Form.8.10.2020.pdf\">file for a consideration\u003c/a>. Applications take around 90 days to process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Who is eligible for compensation as a gun violence survivor?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You must be a California resident at the time of the crime. You could also be someone who was victimized in California but not a \u003ci>resident \u003c/i>of California. You do not need to be a U.S. citizen to be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalVCB also said that people who \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/who-is-eligible/\">“do not cooperate with police and the court in the investigation, arrest and trial of the person who committed the crime”\u003c/a> may not be eligible — although exceptions could be considered in cases like domestic violence, sexual assault or child abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What kind of crime can CalVCB compensate for?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/who-is-eligible/\">The crime must involve physical injury\u003c/a>, emotional injury due to the threat of physical injury or death. There may be some cases where emotional injury alone may apply, like child abandonment, and may also include witnesses to crimes or family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examples of the types of crime covered include assault, hate crimes, human trafficking, online harassment, robbery and driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who are \u003ci>not \u003c/i>eligible for compensation include people who committed the crime or were involved in the events leading up to the crime. It also includes those who committed a felony at the time of the crime, but the website does state that \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/who-is-eligible/\">“exceptions may be considered.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What exactly can be covered by this kind of compensation?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/uploads/2024/07/Compensation-Benefit-Reference-Guide_ENG_06.24_locked_EG.pdf\">CalVCB has a detailed spreadsheet (link to PDF)\u003c/a> dedicated to the types of situations it has reimbursed before, which includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Medical and dental treatment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mental health treatment\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Funeral and burial\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Home security installation\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Relocation (for example, moving to a new neighborhood)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Crime scene clean-up\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There are limitations on funds awarded. Dollar amount-wise, the most a person can be eligible for is up to $70,000, and funeral costs are \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/uploads/2017/01/Compensation-Benefit-Reference-Guide_ENG_01.23.pdf\">capped at $12,818 (link to PDF).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/what-is-covered/\">medical expenses\u003c/a>, CalVCB has several reimbursement options, largely based on the current Medicare rates for services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/what-is-covered/\">Mental health treatment reimbursement\u003c/a> is also based on the victim’s relation to the crime, meaning \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/uploads/2017/01/Compensation-Benefit-Reference-Guide_ENG_01.23.pdf\">the direct victim would get more hours in a therapy session\u003c/a> than, for example, a family member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where can I seek help with the compensation application process?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administrative process can be undoubtedly daunting — and complex. Luckily, there are \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-advocates/\">victim advocates who can help people go through their applications\u003c/a>. And while James said he would like to see this administrative burden on victims greatly reduced, people can turn to support groups and networks — who will most likely have someone who went through the same process — to get advice on navigating the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have others who have gone through that experience that can help prepare you to ask the questions that you may not have thought of, but also explain things that may be [new] information,” James said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because, unfortunately, as our gun violence problem continues to go on, our survivor network is going to continue to be needed until we’re able to address this fully,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jservantez\">Jared Servantez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/a> contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This week, two separate shootings on school property took place in Oakland, placing campuses on temporary lockdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Laney College athletic director and longtime football coach \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064112/suspect-arrested-in-shooting-of-oakland-laney-college-coach-john-beam\">John Beam died after being shot on campus Thursday\u003c/a>, Oakland police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days earlier, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063886/at-least-1-person-shot-at-oaklands-skyline-high-school\">a young person was shot at Skyline High School\u003c/a>, and two minors were taken into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must continue confronting the ongoing gun violence crisis that is robbing our community of safety and stealing futures,” said Oakland mayor Barbara Lee on Thursday. “This is a moment for our community to come together and address this violence with urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/\">firearms remain a stronghold in American culture and politics\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1184731316/gun-violence-epidemic-suicide-mass-shooting-public-health-emergency-chicago\">gun violence continues to be an epidemic\u003c/a> that makes the United States \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/briefing/guns-america-shooting-deaths.html\">an outlier compared to other countries\u003c/a> when it comes to the number of people injured and killed by others with guns. And while California’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/OGVP-Data-Report-2022.pdf\">rate of firearm-related mortality\u003c/a> is lower than the United States as a whole, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050674/california-democrats-could-ban-sale-of-new-glocks-one-of-the-most-popular-handguns\">some steps\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049635/court-strikes-down-california-ammunition-background-check-law\">varying success\u003c/a> towards curbing access, gun violence continues to impact the state — and the people of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of November 2025, at least 950 people in California have been killed this year by gun violence — which includes murder, accidental incidents and suicide — according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/\">data from the Gun Violence Archive\u003c/a>. While tragedy has struck communities of varying backgrounds, \u003ca href=\"https://everytownresearch.org/issue/impact-of-gun-violence-on-historically-marginalized-communities/\">gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/OGVP-Data-Report-2022.pdf\">particularly Black and Latino people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/OGVP-Data-Report-2022.pdf\">August 2023 report\u003c/a> by the California Department of Justice found that “gun homicide caused 38% of deaths among Black teenage males over [2020-2021], compared to 4% of deaths among white teenage males.” From 2019 to 2021, California authorities also found that there was a 2% increase in the number of domestic violence calls, with an 80% increase in firearms being used or threatened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gun violence, whether it kills or not, can also ripple outward and bring trauma to many others around it — whether that’s the people who survive being shot, the loved ones of those who’ve died or folks who witness a shooting or are in the surrounding area when it happens. And surviving gun violence like this is “a lifelong journey,” said Keenon James, the director of Everytown Survivor Network, a survivors’ group that advocates for gun violence prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not as if it’s something that you get over in a year or some period of time,” said James, who was a child when \u003ca href=\"https://www.everytown.org/press/everytown-taps-keenon-james-as-director-of-the-everytown-survivor-network/\">his own brother was shot and killed in Takoma Park, Maryland, 30 years ago\u003c/a>. “The timetable is unknown, and it varies for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’ve been impacted by gun violence yourself, where can you find support around the Bay Area? Keep reading for a list of resources that can offer assistance to survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jump straight to:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#gunviolencesupport\">Which centers and hotlines offer support to gun violence survivors?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#victimscompensationcalifornia\">How can survivors apply for potential compensation?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Where can you find support after gun violence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Go at your own pace …\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, don’t discount your need for support just because the gun violence in question wasn’t recent. Everytown Survivor Network’s James emphasizes that trauma “may manifest later on” and can be stirred up by “something that occurs later in life that makes you think back to that instance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going through that type of experience definitely changes your life,” he said, and you should seek the kind of support that feels best for you and your circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>… and be open to different sources of potential healing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meaningful support after experiencing gun violence might not always take the form you — or others in your life — might expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10779105/eight-months-after-in-custody-death-a-brother-still-hunts-for-answers\">Derrick Benson\u003c/a>, a resource coordinator at Oakland-based advocacy organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> (APTP), told KQED after the Juneteenth tragedy that healing can look like many different things. For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/antipoliceterrorproject/p/C8dWgjdPrwW/?hl=en\">APTP pointed to organizations that provided acupuncture or herbal foot soaks\u003c/a> — both of which were offered at their Healing Portal event directly after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James said some people may also find respite in advocacy work, as “most gun violence survivors are focused on making their community safer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Advocacy allows us to make sure someone’s loved one continues to have a voice, that they’re remembered, and they’re not forgotten, ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ca id=\"gunviolencesupport\">\u003c/a>Reach out to local support centers\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is a non-exhaustive list of locations and hotlines around the Bay Area offering mental health support to people who have survived gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that costs and types of services offered can sometimes change, so be sure to clarify with these resources directly to ensure you’re getting what you need (and what you expect).\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/board/trauma-recovery-centers/\">California’s Trauma Recovery Centers\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://everytownsupportfund.org/everytown-survivor-network/\">Everytown Survivor Network\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.peoplesprograms.com/health-clinic\">People’s Program\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\">MH First Oakland\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/\">National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u003c/a>: 988 (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-help\">National Institute of Mental Health\u003c/a>: 866-615-6464 (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crisistextline.org/\">Crisis Text Line\u003c/a>: Text HOME to 741741 (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cocofamilyjustice.org/\">Family Justice Center\u003c/a> (free)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://womensbuilding.org/twb-annual-report/\">The Women’s Building\u003c/a> (free or low-cost)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://stevefund.org/crisistextline/\">Steve Fund\u003c/a>: STEVE to 741741 (For young people of color)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareatrauma.com/\">Bay Area Trauma Center\u003c/a> (standard fee ranges from \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareatrauma.com/trauma-center-fees.html\">$150–$300 for a 50-minute session\u003c/a>, or whatever your insurance plan is. If you are a victim of a crime, it could possibly be free through the state — more on this below)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.traumarecoveryclinic.org/\">Bay Area Trauma Recovery Clinical Services\u003c/a> (dependent on income for individual therapy, but ranges from $30–$150. Group therapy is $160; \u003ca href=\"https://www.traumarecoveryclinic.org/fees.html\">does not take insurance\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You can also consult \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/get-help/\">CalVCB\u003c/a>’s or \u003ca href=\"https://211bayarea.org/topics/mental-health/\">211’s\u003c/a> database, which includes county-specific assistance, support and counseling. The database lists resources across the Bay Area. Your \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/s_cpgpcalvipgrant/\">county or city\u003c/a> may also have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/Public-Safety-Streets/Crime-Prevention/Violence-Prevention\">violence prevention program\u003c/a>, which often includes contacts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/files/assets/city/v/1/violence-prevention/documents/dvp-funded-services-brochure_healing_06.22.24.pdf\">knowledgeable and funded organizations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, KQED published a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881725/where-to-find-affordable-culturally-competent-therapy-in-bay-area-and-beyond\">guide to finding culturally competent therapy in the Bay Area\u003c/a> that addressed the needs this kind of inequity creates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11939606\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11939606\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue jacket holds a candle as he looks up, with other mourners around him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/027_KQED_HMBMassShootingVigil_01272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friends and family of the Half Moon Bay mass shooting victims listen to speakers during a vigil in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Seek support from your health care provider (if you’re comfortable doing so)\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone feels comfortable asking for support within the medical profession, Benson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He noted that for many communities, especially Black and brown folks, going to the hospital or doctor’s can be “kind of iffy” due to the ongoing impacts of the history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/features/minority-medical-distrust\">bias and racism in medicine\u003c/a> in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do decide to go to your primary care doctor, NPR has a guide on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/03/738497630/how-to-get-the-best-from-your-doctor\">advocating for yourself during the appointment\u003c/a>, which includes advice like coming prepared with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1172843588\">a list of priorities you want to discuss\u003c/a> and be \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/08/739039046/how-to-pick-a-doctor-or-break-up-with-one\">ready to leave a doctor\u003c/a> who does not appear to be listening to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has \u003ca href=\"https://www.opa.ca.gov/\">a state office dedicated to patient advocacy\u003c/a>, where you can find \u003ca href=\"https://www.opa.ca.gov/FilingComplaints/ConsumerAssistanceResourcesByCounty/\">county-specific resources\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.opa.ca.gov/filingcomplaints/resources_san_francisco/\">assistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who don’t feel comfortable seeking support from their health care provider, community organizations — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-events/2023/1/13/healing-justice-portal-at-tha-peoples-house\">APTP’s pop-up healing portals\u003c/a> — can alternatively help guide families to the resources they need for healing, Benson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"victimscompensationcalifornia\">\u003c/a>How does compensation for gun violence survivors work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each state has its own \u003ca href=\"https://everytownsupportfund.org/everytown-survivor-network/resources-for-victims-and-survivors-of-gun-violence/crime-victim-compensation-financial-assistance-after-a-crime/\">Crime Victim Compensation Program\u003c/a>, which is a board that may be able to provide financial support for victims of various crimes, including gun violence and their families. In California, that program is called the \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/board/\">California Victim Compensation Board\u003c/a>, or CalVCB. Your county may also have its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacda.org/victim-services/victim-witness-assistance-program/\">Victim Witness Assistance Center,\u003c/a> which could offer support to survivors of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everytown Survivor Network’s James urged people to turn to the funding that could be available to them, like state funding or supportive organizations. “There are many opportunities available, and I encourage people to take advantage of that opportunity to look into them,” he said — recommending that you “see what’s available, what might suit you and what might be accessible to you based on your health care needs, what your health coverage and benefits may be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/uploads/2024/04/Media_FactSheet_locked.pdf\">the CalVCB’s 2022–23 fiscal year\u003c/a>, the program received 39,000 applications and provided $49.7 million in compensation, with assault claims accounting for the largest share of the assistance provided. These funds cover services like burials (2023’s largest expense), income loss and relocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application and \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/how-compensation-works/\">instructions for applying for compensation\u003c/a> can be found on \u003ca href=\"https://online.victims.ca.gov/\">CalVCB’s website\u003c/a>. There is also a \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/forms/?vcb_service=&vcb_language=&search_keyword=samaritan\">Good Samaritan Compensation\u003c/a> application for those who attempted to help in a crisis and suffered personal injury, property damage or even death as a result..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You must \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/how-compensation-works/\">apply for compensation within seven years of the crime\u003c/a>, although it’s possible to \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/uploads/2021/07/Late-Filing-Consideration-Form.8.10.2020.pdf\">file for a consideration\u003c/a>. Applications take around 90 days to process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Who is eligible for compensation as a gun violence survivor?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You must be a California resident at the time of the crime. You could also be someone who was victimized in California but not a \u003ci>resident \u003c/i>of California. You do not need to be a U.S. citizen to be eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalVCB also said that people who \u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/who-is-eligible/\">“do not cooperate with police and the court in the investigation, arrest and trial of the person who committed the crime”\u003c/a> may not be eligible — although exceptions could be considered in cases like domestic violence, sexual assault or child abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What kind of crime can CalVCB compensate for?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://victims.ca.gov/for-victims/who-is-eligible/\">The crime must involve physical injury\u003c/a>, emotional injury due to the threat of physical injury or death. There may be some cases where emotional injury alone may apply, like child abandonment, and may also include witnesses to crimes or family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Examples of the types of crime covered include assault, hate crimes, human trafficking, online harassment, robbery and driving under the influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who are \u003ci>not \u003c/i>eligible for compensation include people who committed the crime or were involved in the events leading up to the crime. 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She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity last September, but after multiple mental health evaluations, she was declared fit to stand trial this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney, time and time again, claims to represent victims. She claims to center victims’ rights and victims’ voices. But in this case, she is ignoring the voice,” said George Galvis, co-founder and executive director of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12062384 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-marinmentalhealth00693_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-marinmentalhealth00693_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-marinmentalhealth00693_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251030-marinmentalhealth00693_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tonatiuh Beltran wears a shirt honoring her mother, Olivia Beltran, outside the Marin County Superior Court during a press conference in San Rafael on Oct. 30, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, he said, “does not mean it’s a get-out-of-jail-free card. It does mean that there isn’t accountability. It’s an understanding of how we treat that person,” adding that jails and prisons aren’t equipped to handle extreme mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin County District Attorney’s Office declined a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial was initially set to begin Oct. 21, but has been pushed back to Nov. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gmeline\">\u003cem>Gabe Meline\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity last September, but after multiple mental health evaluations, she was declared fit to stand trial this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney, time and time again, claims to represent victims. She claims to center victims’ rights and victims’ voices. 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Democrats are working on the ground in an effort to flip the congressional seat. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a coalition of 25 states in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061823/california-sues-trump-administration-over-suspension-of-snap-benefits-during-shutdown\">a lawsuit against the USDA.\u003c/a> That’s after the federal agency announced that it will not issue SNAP benefits during the government shutdown.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/education/2025-10-28/mckinleyville-school-district-sues-feds-over-the-loss-of-a-mental-health-grant\">McKinleyville Union School District\u003c/a> in far Northern California has sued the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061715/california-divided-heres-whats-at-stake-for-californians-whose-districts-could-get-rewritten-by-prop-50\">\u003cstrong>Democrats In Northeast San Diego County See Proposition 50 As way to reach New Voters\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Diego County, four out of five congressional seats are held by Democrats. But in the more rural northeast part of the county, Republicans have been on a winning streak that has lasted more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Darrell Issa, who holds California’s 48th District seat, has represented the area through multiple redistricting cycles. If Proposition 50 passes in November, Issa’s district would become almost unrecognizable, shifting from a double-digit advantage for Republicans to a 10-point lead for Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democratic Party activists say the district already has more liberal-leaning voters than even residents in the area might think. “When people find out that they actually have Democrats or like-minded people as their neighbors, they’re surprised,” said Andi McNew, who was canvassing in the small city of Poway in favor of Proposition 50. “While the MAGA people are loud with their flags and stuff, it kind of keeps Democrats afraid and scared. And they shouldn’t be scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County Democratic Party Chair Will Rodriguez-Kennedy said his group is going “all in” on Proposition 50 messaging to reach “everyone, everywhere, all at once.” The party is expanding efforts to reach voters who speak different languages. He said activists on the ground have asked for Spanish-language material, which they’ve been delivering to locals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"routes-Site-routes-Post-Title-__Title__title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061823/california-sues-trump-administration-over-suspension-of-snap-benefits-during-shutdown\">\u003cstrong>California Sues Trump Administration Over Suspension Of SNAP Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California and 21 other states are suing the Trump administration over its move to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13982957/snap-calfresh-ebt-november-shutdown-meals-food-assistance-san-francisco-bay-area\">suspend food stamp benefits\u003c/a> during the ongoing government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit, announced Tuesday morning by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, marks the 45th time this year that California has taken the Trump administration to court over its policies, often joined by other Democratic governors and attorneys general. Many of those lawsuits, like this one, challenge moves by the White House to withhold funding to California and other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/2025.10.28%20Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit\u003c/a>, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, alleges that the U.S. Department of Agriculture still has sufficient funds to continue administering Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits despite the government shutdown. It asks the court for a temporary restraining order to halt the suspension, set to take effect Nov. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the first time ever, SNAP benefits will not be available to the millions of low-income individuals who depend on them to put food on the table,” Bonta said. “With the holidays around the corner, we are seeing costs for groceries continue to increase and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061440/calfresh-snap-ebt-shutdown-find-food-banks-near-me-san-francisco-bay-area-alameda-oakland-contra-costa-newsom-national-guard\">food banks facing unprecedented demand\u003c/a>. We are taking a stand because families will experience hunger and malnutrition if the Trump administration gets its way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 5.5 million Californians \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060770/snap-calfresh-food-stamps-government-shutdown-november-payments-ebt\">rely on SNAP benefits\u003c/a>, which are distributed as debit cards to people making less than the federal poverty line — about $31,000 for a family of four. Last year, Bonta said, 41 million Americans benefited from SNAP, most of them families with children and many of them disabled or elderly. In California, the SNAP program is known as CalFresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/education/2025-10-28/mckinleyville-school-district-sues-feds-over-the-loss-of-a-mental-health-grant\">\u003cstrong>McKinleyville School District Sues Feds Over The Loss Of A Mental Health Grant\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"ArtP-subheadline\">A Humboldt County school district says the U.S. Department of Education unlawfully cut short a five-year grant, leaving rural students without critical mental health support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal lawsuit names U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. It alleges the Department of Education unlawfully withdrew four years of promised grant funding from the district. 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But the blowback against the tech company’s decision to loosen restrictions this week has been bigger, given the San Francisco-based company’s promise to ensure its AI\u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/our-structure/\"> benefits all of humanity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most significant change will roll out in December, when OpenAI will allow more comprehensive age-gating, allowing verified adults to generate erotic content using the tool — “as part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle,” OpenAI CEO Sam \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128\">Altman posted Tuesday\u003c/a> on the social media platform X.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer advocates say OpenAI is following the lead of xAI’s Grok, which offers loosely moderated “adult” modes with minimal age verification, raising concerns that teenage users may have access to explicit content. Meta AI is believed to be following xAI’s lead as well, and its back and forth over whether it is intentionally pushing mature content to minors has \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senator-hawley-launches-probe-into-meta-ai-policies-2025-08-15/\">prompted\u003c/a> U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue, we wanted to get this right,” Altman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement came less than two months after the company was sued by the parents of Adam Raine, a teenager who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054490/child-safety-groups-demand-mental-health-guardrails-after-california-teens-suicide-using-chatgpt\">died by suicide\u003c/a> earlier this year, for ChatGPT allegedly providing him with specific advice on how to kill himself — setting off a firestorm of news coverage and comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989313\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2155035557-scaled-e1760733694503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The OpenAI ChatGPT logo. \u003ccite>(Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Altman delivered \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/sama/status/1978539332215681076\">a follow-up\u003c/a> on Wednesday. “We will still not allow things that cause harm to others, and we will treat users who are having mental health crises very different from users who are not … But we are not the elected moral police of the world. In the same way that society differentiates other appropriate boundaries (R-rated movies, for example), we want to do a similar thing here,” Altman wrote, although it remains unclear whether OpenAI will extend erotica to its AI voice, image and video generation tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Comparing content moderation of chatbot interactions with movie ratings is not really useful,” wrote Irina Raicu, director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. “It downplays both the nature and the extent of the problems that we’re seeing when people get more and more dependent on and influenced by chatbot ‘relationships.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Cuban, the entrepreneur, investor and media personality, argued much the same in a string of \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/mcuban/status/1978317936336028016\">posts on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see how OpenAI can age-gate successfully enough. I’m also not sure that it can’t psychologically damage young adults. We just don’t know yet how addictive LLMs can be. Which, in my OPINION, means that parents and schools, that would otherwise want to use ChatGPT because of its current ubiquity, will decide not to use it,” Cuban wrote.[aside postID=news_12059714 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GavinNewsomAISF1.jpg']Others see the drive for paying subscribers and increased profit behind the move. As a private company, OpenAI does not release its shareholder reports publicly. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/openai-completes-share-sale-at-record-500-billion-valuation?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDcxODQwMSwiZXhwIjoxNzYxMzIzMjAxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUM0hLMkNHUFdDSEIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBM0VCRjM5ODM4RDc0RDI4QUJDREM4MDZDMDA5RTVBMiJ9.ADGZysjoeNVhUDWXwiuAxieyKueee-676dgJIAM9BvQ\">Bloomberg\u003c/a> recently reported that OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation. According to Altman, ChatGPT is already used by \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-has-hit-800m-weekly-active-users/\">800 million weekly active users\u003c/a>. With so much investment at stake, OpenAI is under pressure to grow its subscriber base. The company has also raised billions of dollars for a historic infrastructure buildout, an investment OpenAI eventually needs to pay back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is no secret that sexual content is one of the most popular and lucrative aspects of the internet,” wrote Jennifer King, a privacy and data policy fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. She noted that nearly 20 U.S. states have passed laws \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/16/adult-website-age-verification-states\">requiring age verification for online adult content\u003c/a> sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By openly embracing business models that allow access to adult content, mainstream providers like OpenAI will face the burden of demonstrating that they have robust methods for excluding children under 18 and potentially adults under the age of 21,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI chatbots appear to be going the way of social media, said California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-San Ramon, whose bill that would have required child safety guardrails for companion chatbots was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059714/newsom-vetoes-most-watched-childrens-ai-bill-signs-16-others-targeting-tech\">vetoed earlier this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11802216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan says local jurisdictions need the power to stop a wildfire disaster before it starts. The assemblymember and other state lawmakers announced a bill to expand enforcement actions against PG&E and other utilities on February, 18, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan on Feb. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Eli Walsh/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that we are on a path to creating the next, frankly, more addictive, more harmful version of social media for our children,” Bauer-Kahan told KQED. “I do not think that the addictive features in these chatbots that result in our children having relationships with a chatbot instead of their fellow humans is a positive thing, and the experts \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/hand-in-hand-schools-embrace-of-ai-connected-to-increased-risks-to-students/\">confirm that\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OpenAI did not comment for this story, but the company has written that it’s \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/\">working\u003c/a> on an under-18 version of ChatGPT, which will redirect minors to age-appropriate content. A couple of weeks ago, OpenAI announced it’s rolling out safety features for minors, including an age prediction system and a way for \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/introducing-parental-controls/\">parents\u003c/a> to control their teens’ ChatGPT accounts. This week, OpenAI announced the formation of \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/expert-council-on-well-being-and-ai/\">an expert council \u003c/a>of mental health professionals to advise the company on well-being and AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-September, the Federal Trade Commission launched an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-launches-inquiry-ai-chatbots-acting-companions\">inquiry\u003c/a> into seven AI chatbot developers, including xAI, Meta and OpenAI, “seeking information on how these firms measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, a couple of dozen \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/06/the-growing-debate-over-expanding-age-verification-laws/\">states\u003c/a> and their \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/AI%20Chatbot_FINAL%20%2844%29.pdf\">attorneys general\u003c/a> have taken the lead on regulation, enacting measures like age verification and requiring many online platforms to verify users’ identities before granting access. East Bay Assemblymember Buffy Wicks won the \u003ca href=\"https://a14.asmdc.org/press-releases/20250909-google-meta-among-tech-leaders-and-child-advocates-voicing-support-wicks\">support of major tech\u003c/a> companies for her measure, \u003ca href=\"https://a14.asmdc.org/press-releases/20250602-asm-wicks-bill-protect-kids-online-passes-assembly-bipartisan-support\">AB 1043\u003c/a>, which was just signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any parent knows it’s easy for children to sidestep those controls, or reach out to older siblings or friends who can help them, Bauer-Kahan said. She said she sees a coincidence in the fact that the veto of her toughest bill was announced on Monday, and Altman’s announcement was posted on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here was a bill that was really requiring very clear, safe-by-design AI for children with real liability. And I think that was further than the industry wanted California to go. I just found the timing of the veto and then this announcement about access to erotica too coincidental not to call out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Others see the drive for paying subscribers and increased profit behind the move. As a private company, OpenAI does not release its shareholder reports publicly. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-02/openai-completes-share-sale-at-record-500-billion-valuation?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MDcxODQwMSwiZXhwIjoxNzYxMzIzMjAxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUM0hLMkNHUFdDSEIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBM0VCRjM5ODM4RDc0RDI4QUJDREM4MDZDMDA5RTVBMiJ9.ADGZysjoeNVhUDWXwiuAxieyKueee-676dgJIAM9BvQ\">Bloomberg\u003c/a> recently reported that OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation. According to Altman, ChatGPT is already used by \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/sam-altman-says-chatgpt-has-hit-800m-weekly-active-users/\">800 million weekly active users\u003c/a>. With so much investment at stake, OpenAI is under pressure to grow its subscriber base. The company has also raised billions of dollars for a historic infrastructure buildout, an investment OpenAI eventually needs to pay back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is no secret that sexual content is one of the most popular and lucrative aspects of the internet,” wrote Jennifer King, a privacy and data policy fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. She noted that nearly 20 U.S. states have passed laws \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/2025/01/16/adult-website-age-verification-states\">requiring age verification for online adult content\u003c/a> sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By openly embracing business models that allow access to adult content, mainstream providers like OpenAI will face the burden of demonstrating that they have robust methods for excluding children under 18 and potentially adults under the age of 21,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI chatbots appear to be going the way of social media, said California Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-San Ramon, whose bill that would have required child safety guardrails for companion chatbots was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059714/newsom-vetoes-most-watched-childrens-ai-bill-signs-16-others-targeting-tech\">vetoed earlier this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11802216\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11802216\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan says local jurisdictions need the power to stop a wildfire disaster before it starts. The assemblymember and other state lawmakers announced a bill to expand enforcement actions against PG&E and other utilities on February, 18, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41373_IMG_0396-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan on Feb. 18, 2020. \u003ccite>(Eli Walsh/Bay City News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that we are on a path to creating the next, frankly, more addictive, more harmful version of social media for our children,” Bauer-Kahan told KQED. “I do not think that the addictive features in these chatbots that result in our children having relationships with a chatbot instead of their fellow humans is a positive thing, and the experts \u003ca href=\"https://cdt.org/insights/hand-in-hand-schools-embrace-of-ai-connected-to-increased-risks-to-students/\">confirm that\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OpenAI did not comment for this story, but the company has written that it’s \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/\">working\u003c/a> on an under-18 version of ChatGPT, which will redirect minors to age-appropriate content. A couple of weeks ago, OpenAI announced it’s rolling out safety features for minors, including an age prediction system and a way for \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/introducing-parental-controls/\">parents\u003c/a> to control their teens’ ChatGPT accounts. This week, OpenAI announced the formation of \u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/expert-council-on-well-being-and-ai/\">an expert council \u003c/a>of mental health professionals to advise the company on well-being and AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In mid-September, the Federal Trade Commission launched an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-launches-inquiry-ai-chatbots-acting-companions\">inquiry\u003c/a> into seven AI chatbot developers, including xAI, Meta and OpenAI, “seeking information on how these firms measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the most part, a couple of dozen \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/06/the-growing-debate-over-expanding-age-verification-laws/\">states\u003c/a> and their \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/AI%20Chatbot_FINAL%20%2844%29.pdf\">attorneys general\u003c/a> have taken the lead on regulation, enacting measures like age verification and requiring many online platforms to verify users’ identities before granting access. East Bay Assemblymember Buffy Wicks won the \u003ca href=\"https://a14.asmdc.org/press-releases/20250909-google-meta-among-tech-leaders-and-child-advocates-voicing-support-wicks\">support of major tech\u003c/a> companies for her measure, \u003ca href=\"https://a14.asmdc.org/press-releases/20250602-asm-wicks-bill-protect-kids-online-passes-assembly-bipartisan-support\">AB 1043\u003c/a>, which was just signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any parent knows it’s easy for children to sidestep those controls, or reach out to older siblings or friends who can help them, Bauer-Kahan said. She said she sees a coincidence in the fact that the veto of her toughest bill was announced on Monday, and Altman’s announcement was posted on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here was a bill that was really requiring very clear, safe-by-design AI for children with real liability. And I think that was further than the industry wanted California to go. I just found the timing of the veto and then this announcement about access to erotica too coincidental not to call out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violent domestic abuse. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started subtly, with sharp words wrapped in irritation, jealousy cloaked as concern. He called her names when they argued, chipping away at her confidence. He slowly isolated her from friends and family — the people who loved her — until his voice was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053210/in-the-face-of-abuse-she-chose-survival-and-now-helps-others-do-the-same\">the only one she could hear\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it escalated — harsh words gave way to slaps across the face and punches. He apologized. She forgave him. Then it happened again. And again. And again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.catbrooks.org/\">Cat Brooks\u003c/a> remembers the night her husband knocked her to the floor of their Las Vegas home, enraged that she had come home late from a rehearsal. Curled on the floor, blood streaming from her face, her body marked with bruises, she stayed hunched as she heard him call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the officers that she had been the one to attack him, Brooks said. As he spoke on the phone, blood seeped into the fabric of her clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrived, they separated and interviewed both. He showed them scratches on his face, and she was labeled the “primary aggressor.” Despite her injuries, Brooks was arrested and taken into custody. She was only released when her husband arrived to take her home. She was a Black woman. He was a white man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Black and brown communities, survivors of domestic violence often face layered barriers to seeking help — from mistrust of law enforcement to fear of criminalization and cultural stigma. Across the Bay Area, advocates are offering non-carceral alternatives, meeting survivors where they are with trauma-informed care, culturally sensitive support and paths to healing that don’t rely on police or punitive systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks stands outside of the Anti Police Terror Project offices in Oakland on July 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month — a time to center survivors’ voices and highlight the advocates and organizations building safer, more responsive communities. Across the Bay Area, that work continues year-round, led by people who believe healing and accountability can exist outside punishment and shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey from 2016 and 2017, 53.6% of Black women and 57.6% of Black men in the state reported experiencing some form of violence or stalking by an intimate partner. The actual number may be much higher due to underreporting, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When survivors feel unsafe reaching out to law enforcement or social workers, it often means choosing between the “lesser of two evils,” Brooks, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/cat-brooks\">prominent \u003c/a>community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cat-brooks\">activist\u003c/a> who was 18 at the time of her marriage, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories are repeatedly the same,” she said. Survivors she’s spoken with say, “I don’t call the police, because I don’t want to go to jail. I don’t call the cops because I don’t want them to kill my partner. I don’t call the police, because I don’t want to lose my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we can’t rely on police or prisons to keep us safe,” Brooks continued, adding that most of the survivors she’s spoken with are just looking for ways to stop the violence.[aside postID=news_12053210 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1137-2000x1500.jpg']Paméla Michelle Tate, executive director of the San Francisco nonprofit Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence, said many clients hesitate to share their experiences because their mistrust of the system is greater than their fear of the abuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors fear that reporting partners or family members to police or social services could lead to their own arrest, Tate said, with some risking criminalization by the very systems meant to help them. They may also be concerned about what law enforcement could do to their partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation becomes more complicated when survivors rely on their abusers for financial support or when children are involved, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lois Corrin was 36 and heavily pregnant with her daughter when her husband abandoned her. After going into preterm labor and enduring a difficult birth, she was bedridden for months in their Piedmont home, barely able to fend for herself. Her family and friends lived across the country, and she stayed silent, hoping her marriage would survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her husband returned, the situation worsened. The house where Corrin was raising her daughter was in shambles — mold grew on the walls, the roof leaked — and he refused to help while she cared for their child. She had nowhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 71, Corrin said it took her a long time to realize her husband’s behavior was abusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053782 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many clients hesitate to share their experiences because their mistrust of the system is greater than their fear of the abuser. \u003ccite>(Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I made a decision not to make it public because I was hoping that the relationship could continue and go back to what it originally was,” she said. “That’s not what happened. I just kept it to myself, and eventually people realized he wasn’t there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was financial abuse, Corrin said, but she didn’t know whom she could trust without risking herself or her child. Economic abuse is a form of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional social service providers are mandated reporters, legally obligated to report any child endangerment, Tate said. If a survivor reports domestic violence and children were present to witness the abuse, there’s a chance the children could be removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of taking the risk, some survivors would choose to stay silent, hoping the abuse would stop or the person causing harm would leave, she said. Fear of social ostracization and judgment from the community also discourages survivors from seeking help, Tate said. Although awareness of domestic violence has grown, pressure remains for those living through abuse to keep their experiences quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tate, some survivors are discouraged from sharing what is considered a personal matter with neighbors and family outside the home, adhering to a “no snitch rule,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tunisia Owens, a policy expert and organizer in Oakland, said it can be difficult for survivors to speak out if they feel their community won’t support them. She pointed to church leaders who encourage women to submit to their husbands or reject divorce, which can isolate survivors. Owens also noted that Black men experiencing domestic violence often stay silent out of fear and shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are oftentimes reluctant to get out of relationships that are abusive or violent because they have been conditioned to believe that you have to stay till death do us part,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An alternative approach\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, several nonprofit organizations are offering survivors non-carceral alternatives to address domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colzaria Henderson, executive director of the San José-based nonprofit Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, said the organization operates entirely outside of “the system.” Next Door Solutions does not provide information to law enforcement or child welfare agencies, and its staff are not mandated reporters, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next Door Solutions is an option for folks that do not want to call law enforcement,” Henderson said. “Most of the survivors we serve are in Black and brown communities, communities of color. They can receive services and safety planning, and we can even help them get a restraining order outside of the criminal justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12017718 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Systems aren’t always built for Black and brown folks. They’re not built specifically for them to succeed … Those pieces are incredibly important as we think about how people access resources and what that might look like with cultural responsiveness,” said Colzaria Henderson, executive director of the San José-based nonprofit Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. \u003ccite>(In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without trusted organizations that engage in community outreach for people wary of involving police, immigration services or child welfare, more survivors may choose to stay with their abusers, she warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said the nonprofit provides wraparound services — from shelter and financial assistance to healing groups and childcare — and works with partners across Santa Clara County and the Bay Area to connect survivors with the support best suited to their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re an organization that is really community centered,” she added. “Systems aren’t always built for Black and brown folks. They’re not built specifically for them to succeed … Those pieces are incredibly important as we think about how people access resources and what that might look like with cultural responsiveness.”[aside postID=news_12045032 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_1050-2000x1500.jpg']At the Family Violence Law Center in Alameda County, survivors can access free legal services, divorce clinics and other programs. With employees serving as domestic violence counselors and lawyers, attorney-client privilege protects survivors’ privacy, barring the organization from disclosing information without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens, policy and advocacy manager at the Family Violence Law Center, said the center also works to educate young people on healthy relationships and the causes of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research on adverse childhood experiences shows that children who face early trauma, such as abuse at home, are 80% more likely to experience future abuse and 60% more likely to cause harm, Owens said. Teaching young people to process emotions through open communication and healing is key to stopping cycles of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The importance of modeling appropriate behaviors and conflict resolution and healthy relationships for young people is so that they can replicate that and spread the word,” she said. “There are things that we have to normalize like consent, having conversations, asking for permission, seeing each other as equals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Thierry, a filmmaker and consultant for the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, said entrenched patriarchal norms can also perpetuate violence in Black communities and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the messaging [young Black men and boys] are being fed is that you have to subjugate others,” Thierry said. “We’re really trying to broaden their perspective and their notion of what it means to be a man. You can still feel whole and powerful and confident and free and liberated while not having to cause harm or put yourself above anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11808346 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“We shame women as if it’s their fault. We shame them as if they were stupid for staying or for not knowing that he was violent. I want to break the cycle, because shame kills women. Shame keeps women from talking. Shame prevents them from reaching out for help,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thierry said much of the work he and his colleagues do centers on educating the public about cycles of harm. For people who have been incarcerated or endured state violence, he said, the trauma can often manifest in ways that cause harm to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brooks remarried in 2017, she said she also experienced abuse from her second husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her partner was a Black man who immigrated from the Caribbean, and the violence emerged during times when he struggled with unemployment. Brooks said there is never justification for abuse, but she noted there should also be more avenues for people of color to process their pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not my enemy,” she said, referring to her second husband. “I’m talking to both survivors of harm and causers of harm. You have nothing to be ashamed of. The mandate is that you get help for yourself, that you interrupt the cycle of violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of addressing the issue of domestic violence in Black communities and families, Thierry said, involves understanding the historical context and the specific traumas and systemic barriers that Black men, boys and women have faced — and continue to navigate today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the last few generations of my family, there has been state violence, the violence of poverty,” he said. “Whenever we’re talking about intimate partner violence that is happening in Black communities, it’s important to acknowledge the historic role that our systems have had in perpetrating harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the domestic violence charges against Brooks were eventually dropped, the trauma and shame lingered for years. Brooks, whose mother was a frontline activist in the movement to end domestic violence, said she struggled in silence long after leaving her former husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that my mother was who she was almost made it worse,” she said. “I’m supposed to know better. I was supposed to leave. I was never supposed to be in that situation in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After leaving Las Vegas, Brooks made her way to Oakland. In 2010, she co-founded the Anti Police-Terror Project to address police violence in Black communities. Through her advocacy work — and the support she found in the men and women around her — she began to heal from the trauma of her first marriage and the abuse that occurred in her second marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing domestic violence became a cornerstone of her organization’s on-the-ground work, Brooks said. Early outreach by the Anti Police-Terror Project focused on connecting with survivors in the community and offering safe, supportive spaces to speak openly about their trauma — without involving law enforcement or other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most important part is making sure survivors have agency, Brooks added. Whether someone is ready to leave the person causing harm or just beginning to take the first steps toward healing, the priority is ensuring they feel safe, supported and in control of their choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shame women as if it’s their fault. We shame them as if they were stupid for staying or for not knowing that he was violent,” Brooks said. “I want to break the cycle, because shame kills women. Shame keeps women from talking. Shame prevents them from reaching out for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> This \u003c/em>\u003cem>is the second of a two-part series that \u003c/em>\u003cem>is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s California Health Equity Fellowship. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053210/in-the-face-of-abuse-she-chose-survival-and-now-helps-others-do-the-same\">\u003cem>Read part one here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. If you or someone you love needs immediate assistance addressing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violent domestic abuse. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started subtly, with sharp words wrapped in irritation, jealousy cloaked as concern. He called her names when they argued, chipping away at her confidence. He slowly isolated her from friends and family — the people who loved her — until his voice was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053210/in-the-face-of-abuse-she-chose-survival-and-now-helps-others-do-the-same\">the only one she could hear\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it escalated — harsh words gave way to slaps across the face and punches. He apologized. She forgave him. Then it happened again. And again. And again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.catbrooks.org/\">Cat Brooks\u003c/a> remembers the night her husband knocked her to the floor of their Las Vegas home, enraged that she had come home late from a rehearsal. Curled on the floor, blood streaming from her face, her body marked with bruises, she stayed hunched as she heard him call the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told the officers that she had been the one to attack him, Brooks said. As he spoke on the phone, blood seeped into the fabric of her clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the officers arrived, they separated and interviewed both. He showed them scratches on his face, and she was labeled the “primary aggressor.” Despite her injuries, Brooks was arrested and taken into custody. She was only released when her husband arrived to take her home. She was a Black woman. He was a white man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Black and brown communities, survivors of domestic violence often face layered barriers to seeking help — from mistrust of law enforcement to fear of criminalization and cultural stigma. Across the Bay Area, advocates are offering non-carceral alternatives, meeting survivors where they are with trauma-informed care, culturally sensitive support and paths to healing that don’t rely on police or punitive systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250730-DVProjectBlackCommunity-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks stands outside of the Anti Police Terror Project offices in Oakland on July 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month — a time to center survivors’ voices and highlight the advocates and organizations building safer, more responsive communities. Across the Bay Area, that work continues year-round, led by people who believe healing and accountability can exist outside punishment and shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey from 2016 and 2017, 53.6% of Black women and 57.6% of Black men in the state reported experiencing some form of violence or stalking by an intimate partner. The actual number may be much higher due to underreporting, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When survivors feel unsafe reaching out to law enforcement or social workers, it often means choosing between the “lesser of two evils,” Brooks, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/cat-brooks\">prominent \u003c/a>community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cat-brooks\">activist\u003c/a> who was 18 at the time of her marriage, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stories are repeatedly the same,” she said. Survivors she’s spoken with say, “I don’t call the police, because I don’t want to go to jail. I don’t call the cops because I don’t want them to kill my partner. I don’t call the police, because I don’t want to lose my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we can’t rely on police or prisons to keep us safe,” Brooks continued, adding that most of the survivors she’s spoken with are just looking for ways to stop the violence.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Paméla Michelle Tate, executive director of the San Francisco nonprofit Black Women Revolt Against Domestic Violence, said many clients hesitate to share their experiences because their mistrust of the system is greater than their fear of the abuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Survivors fear that reporting partners or family members to police or social services could lead to their own arrest, Tate said, with some risking criminalization by the very systems meant to help them. They may also be concerned about what law enforcement could do to their partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation becomes more complicated when survivors rely on their abusers for financial support or when children are involved, she noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lois Corrin was 36 and heavily pregnant with her daughter when her husband abandoned her. After going into preterm labor and enduring a difficult birth, she was bedridden for months in their Piedmont home, barely able to fend for herself. Her family and friends lived across the country, and she stayed silent, hoping her marriage would survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her husband returned, the situation worsened. The house where Corrin was raising her daughter was in shambles — mold grew on the walls, the roof leaked — and he refused to help while she cared for their child. She had nowhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now 71, Corrin said it took her a long time to realize her husband’s behavior was abusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053782\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12053782 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/WomanClaspsHandsGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many clients hesitate to share their experiences because their mistrust of the system is greater than their fear of the abuser. \u003ccite>(Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I made a decision not to make it public because I was hoping that the relationship could continue and go back to what it originally was,” she said. “That’s not what happened. I just kept it to myself, and eventually people realized he wasn’t there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was financial abuse, Corrin said, but she didn’t know whom she could trust without risking herself or her child. Economic abuse is a form of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional social service providers are mandated reporters, legally obligated to report any child endangerment, Tate said. If a survivor reports domestic violence and children were present to witness the abuse, there’s a chance the children could be removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of taking the risk, some survivors would choose to stay silent, hoping the abuse would stop or the person causing harm would leave, she said. Fear of social ostracization and judgment from the community also discourages survivors from seeking help, Tate said. Although awareness of domestic violence has grown, pressure remains for those living through abuse to keep their experiences quiet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Tate, some survivors are discouraged from sharing what is considered a personal matter with neighbors and family outside the home, adhering to a “no snitch rule,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tunisia Owens, a policy expert and organizer in Oakland, said it can be difficult for survivors to speak out if they feel their community won’t support them. She pointed to church leaders who encourage women to submit to their husbands or reject divorce, which can isolate survivors. Owens also noted that Black men experiencing domestic violence often stay silent out of fear and shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are oftentimes reluctant to get out of relationships that are abusive or violent because they have been conditioned to believe that you have to stay till death do us part,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An alternative approach\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, several nonprofit organizations are offering survivors non-carceral alternatives to address domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colzaria Henderson, executive director of the San José-based nonprofit Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, said the organization operates entirely outside of “the system.” Next Door Solutions does not provide information to law enforcement or child welfare agencies, and its staff are not mandated reporters, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Next Door Solutions is an option for folks that do not want to call law enforcement,” Henderson said. “Most of the survivors we serve are in Black and brown communities, communities of color. They can receive services and safety planning, and we can even help them get a restraining order outside of the criminal justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12017718 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Systems aren’t always built for Black and brown folks. They’re not built specifically for them to succeed … Those pieces are incredibly important as we think about how people access resources and what that might look like with cultural responsiveness,” said Colzaria Henderson, executive director of the San José-based nonprofit Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. \u003ccite>(In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Without trusted organizations that engage in community outreach for people wary of involving police, immigration services or child welfare, more survivors may choose to stay with their abusers, she warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said the nonprofit provides wraparound services — from shelter and financial assistance to healing groups and childcare — and works with partners across Santa Clara County and the Bay Area to connect survivors with the support best suited to their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re an organization that is really community centered,” she added. “Systems aren’t always built for Black and brown folks. They’re not built specifically for them to succeed … Those pieces are incredibly important as we think about how people access resources and what that might look like with cultural responsiveness.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the Family Violence Law Center in Alameda County, survivors can access free legal services, divorce clinics and other programs. With employees serving as domestic violence counselors and lawyers, attorney-client privilege protects survivors’ privacy, barring the organization from disclosing information without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owens, policy and advocacy manager at the Family Violence Law Center, said the center also works to educate young people on healthy relationships and the causes of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research on adverse childhood experiences shows that children who face early trauma, such as abuse at home, are 80% more likely to experience future abuse and 60% more likely to cause harm, Owens said. Teaching young people to process emotions through open communication and healing is key to stopping cycles of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The importance of modeling appropriate behaviors and conflict resolution and healthy relationships for young people is so that they can replicate that and spread the word,” she said. “There are things that we have to normalize like consent, having conversations, asking for permission, seeing each other as equals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan Thierry, a filmmaker and consultant for the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, said entrenched patriarchal norms can also perpetuate violence in Black communities and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the messaging [young Black men and boys] are being fed is that you have to subjugate others,” Thierry said. “We’re really trying to broaden their perspective and their notion of what it means to be a man. You can still feel whole and powerful and confident and free and liberated while not having to cause harm or put yourself above anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11808346 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“We shame women as if it’s their fault. We shame them as if they were stupid for staying or for not knowing that he was violent. I want to break the cycle, because shame kills women. Shame keeps women from talking. Shame prevents them from reaching out for help,” said Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thierry said much of the work he and his colleagues do centers on educating the public about cycles of harm. For people who have been incarcerated or endured state violence, he said, the trauma can often manifest in ways that cause harm to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Brooks remarried in 2017, she said she also experienced abuse from her second husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her partner was a Black man who immigrated from the Caribbean, and the violence emerged during times when he struggled with unemployment. Brooks said there is never justification for abuse, but she noted there should also be more avenues for people of color to process their pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not my enemy,” she said, referring to her second husband. “I’m talking to both survivors of harm and causers of harm. You have nothing to be ashamed of. The mandate is that you get help for yourself, that you interrupt the cycle of violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of addressing the issue of domestic violence in Black communities and families, Thierry said, involves understanding the historical context and the specific traumas and systemic barriers that Black men, boys and women have faced — and continue to navigate today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the last few generations of my family, there has been state violence, the violence of poverty,” he said. “Whenever we’re talking about intimate partner violence that is happening in Black communities, it’s important to acknowledge the historic role that our systems have had in perpetrating harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Moving forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the domestic violence charges against Brooks were eventually dropped, the trauma and shame lingered for years. Brooks, whose mother was a frontline activist in the movement to end domestic violence, said she struggled in silence long after leaving her former husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that my mother was who she was almost made it worse,” she said. “I’m supposed to know better. I was supposed to leave. I was never supposed to be in that situation in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/020_Oakland_MLKCarCaravan_01182021_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks, co-founder of Anti Police-Terror Project, speaks before a Martin Luther King Day car caravan leaves Middle Harbor Shoreline Park near the Port of Oakland on Jan. 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After leaving Las Vegas, Brooks made her way to Oakland. In 2010, she co-founded the Anti Police-Terror Project to address police violence in Black communities. Through her advocacy work — and the support she found in the men and women around her — she began to heal from the trauma of her first marriage and the abuse that occurred in her second marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addressing domestic violence became a cornerstone of her organization’s on-the-ground work, Brooks said. Early outreach by the Anti Police-Terror Project focused on connecting with survivors in the community and offering safe, supportive spaces to speak openly about their trauma — without involving law enforcement or other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most important part is making sure survivors have agency, Brooks added. Whether someone is ready to leave the person causing harm or just beginning to take the first steps toward healing, the priority is ensuring they feel safe, supported and in control of their choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We shame women as if it’s their fault. We shame them as if they were stupid for staying or for not knowing that he was violent,” Brooks said. “I want to break the cycle, because shame kills women. Shame keeps women from talking. Shame prevents them from reaching out for help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem> This \u003c/em>\u003cem>is the second of a two-part series that \u003c/em>\u003cem>is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s California Health Equity Fellowship. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053210/in-the-face-of-abuse-she-chose-survival-and-now-helps-others-do-the-same\">\u003cem>Read part one here\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. If you or someone you love needs immediate assistance addressing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of violent domestic abuse.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jagbir Kang was soundly asleep next to her 4-month-old son when she was jolted awake by violent banging on her bedroom door in Fremont. She scooped her baby into her arms just as her husband forced his way in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier that night, Kang had called the police to report a family disturbance — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043890/your-voice-matters-help-kqed-report-on-domestic-violence-in-the-bay-area\">her husband had hit her\u003c/a>. When officers arrived, they asked whether she wanted to press charges. Kang said no. They asked her if she needed a place to stay for the night, away from her husband. Again, she said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kang, who was 28 and had been married for two years, said she had no intention of leaving. All she wanted was for the abuse to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic violence often goes unspoken in Asian communities, where stigma, family dynamics, immigration status and lack of culturally responsive services can make it especially difficult to seek help. Survivors like Kang say those layered pressures — along with the fear of losing family, support systems or legal status — kept them silent for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month — a time to center survivors’ voices and highlight the advocates and organizations building safer, more responsive communities. Across the Bay Area, that work continues year-round, led by people who believe healing and accountability can exist outside punishment and shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a growing network of advocates and organizations are working to break through that silence and build support systems that meet survivors where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kang remembers her husband taking a fistful of her hair and slamming her head repeatedly against the wall. Bruises blossomed across her face, and the trauma caused temporary blindness in her left eye. Even as she screamed that she couldn’t see, he kept hitting her. When he wrapped his hands around her throat, Kang feared he wouldn’t stop until she was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It seemed like it was never-ending,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kang, now 46, met her husband through an arranged introduction by her parents in March 2006. They married a few months later. The emotional and verbal abuse began almost immediately, Kang told KQED. By the time their son was born, it had escalated to physical violence. Kang said her husband never hurt their children, but they witnessed the verbal and emotional abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stayed with him for 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the 2008 assault, when she spoke with doctors, she said she’d fallen on a hike. When her friends asked if she was OK, she reassured them that she was fine. She held onto hope that things would change — even when, deep down, she knew they would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until she was diagnosed with cancer that she decided to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a very optimistic person, and I felt that he would change now that I’m diagnosed with an illness,” she said. “Actually, the abuse became worse after that, and I decided I couldn’t do it anymore … I worried about money and losing children, but then I was like, it’s OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still better, because I’ll be alive for my children. Otherwise, I’d be dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Asian survivors, the decision to leave an abusive spouse or family member is fraught with fear — of community rejection, of losing immigration status or of being unable to access culturally competent services. [aside postID=news_12017701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DomesticViolenceGetty-1020x679.jpg']According to the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, up to 55% of Asian women reported experiencing some form of intimate violence in their lifetimes. The rates vary across ethnic groups — Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese, Korean and others — but experts agree that underreporting is common and the true numbers are likely higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallika Kaur, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/domestic-violence-law-field-placement/\">Domestic Violence & Gender-Based Violence Practicum\u003c/a> at Berkeley Law, said that cultural expectations play a major role in keeping survivors silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional gender norms can make it difficult for communities and families to engage in conversations about gender violence. If a woman has been repeatedly taught to follow her husband, she may feel uncertain about what will happen if she chooses to leave, Kaur said, adding that the fear and uncertainty caused by patriarchal standards is something survivors experience outside of Asian communities as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur, who is also executive director of the Sikh Family Center, an organization focused on addressing gender-based violence nationwide, said survivors also fear backlash from their communities. For people whose entire support system is grounded in a tight-knit cultural or religious community, the risk of alienation is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Survivors] may not see a way of detangling themselves from their abusive partner without losing all sense of community,” Kaur said. “It can determine whether or not they’re going to speak about the abuse, seek separation or even distance themselves from the abusive party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she left her husband, Kang said she felt shunned by people she once considered friends and family. In many South Asian communities, divorce carries a heavy stigma — not just for the individual, but for the entire family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang washes the dishes at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t want me around,” Kang said. “They didn’t know what I was going through. I didn’t know what the cycle of abuse is. When I learned that this is the abuse cycle and that it’s going to repeat … I would tell my people. Nobody would listen. They don’t believe you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuse in Asian families isn’t always limited to partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a study by the \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/05/a-record-64-million-americans-live-in-multigenerational-households/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!4zqR5oIOzB74vlPDWu0qAyoaIenZnvvH_6FmvZYl_zicNEe0XVsM-1q1xqPQl4l1tc8%24\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, 29% of Asian Americans lived in multigenerational households in 2016 — more so than any other ethnic group. Kaur said that in a country that emphasizes individualism, the dynamics of collectivist family structures are often misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think beyond partner violence in these communities. In-law violence is something people at times cannot fully wrap their heads around,” she said. “Even if they don’t live in the same home, the family structure can often be so that these hooks and their say about what should or shouldn’t happen carries a lot of weight and determines somebody’s full lived reality in a marriage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after Kang married, her in-laws moved in. She described her father-in-law as narcissistic and dangerous. Their presence, she said, made the abuse worse, and it only escalated after her mother-in-law died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some families, elders and community members can step in and provide support to survivors. In others, the presence of more relatives simply adds to the trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration status and financial instability also pose significant challenges. Shailaja Dixit, executive director of Narika, a Bay Area nonprofit that serves South Asian survivors, said many immigrant survivors are vulnerable because they rely on their abusers to manage documents or visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, a woman’s finances are controlled entirely by their husband. Some are forbidden to work. Others may work but not have access to their own wages, Dixit said. If the survivor chooses to leave, they risk falling into poverty or being left without any income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody is in a position to leave,” Dixit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When culture meets care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Saara Ahmed, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045032/she-left-her-abuser-now-the-shelter-that-helped-her-is-losing-federal-funds-under-trump\">Asian Women’s Shelter\u003c/a> in San Francisco, said more needs to be done to create accessible, culturally responsive support systems for Asian survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each community and individual has different needs and traditional service providers are not always equipped to provide care in a survivor’s native language or to understand their cultural context, Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be really difficult [for survivors] to access things like shelter and support and services when there is, in addition to the kind of existing taboos and stigmas that domestic violence survivors face, those added barriers of cultural understanding and language needs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Asian Women’s Shelter was created in direct response to the gap in critical services for survivors, she said. In addition to providing clients with emergency housing, legal assistance, trauma counseling and financial assistance, the organization provides thousands of hours of language-specific case management each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Services are available in over 40 different languages, including Cantonese, Korean, Arabic, Indonesian, Khmer, Punjabi and Tagalog. The shelter also runs two outreach programs focused on Arab and Korean survivors who have experienced domestic violence or human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said the nonprofit is also engaged in outreach efforts to spread awareness about domestic abuse and other forms of gender-based violence through community events and partnerships. There are a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to domestic violence, she said, and part of the solution is teaching people about the different forms abuse can take and what the long-term repercussions are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter is part of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, a network of local service agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to have flexible models that make room for the uniqueness and individual needs of survivors,” she said. “Survivors face a lot of stigma, victim blaming and kind of overall societal and cultural misunderstandings and misrepresentations.”[aside postID=news_12045032 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/IMG_1050-2000x1500.jpg']Narika offers wraparound services as well, including shelter, transportation, financial counseling and legal aid, Dixit said. The organization also provides support groups Monday through Friday, giving survivors the opportunity to find community with others who have similar experiences. Dixit said Narika served more than 900 survivors last year and 500 since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She emphasized that even within South Asian communities, experiences vary widely. Within the South Asian diaspora, there are dozens of microcultures and ethnic groups, Dixit said. While domestic violence occurs in every community, each one experiences it differently and has a different understanding of what it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like one of the biggest things an organization can do is be hyper local, settle into the community and be willing to listen and spend time with survivors and community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur said it’s important to recognize the role that a person’s community can play in finding culturally sensitive solutions to combat abuse. She noted that the “cultural dog whistle” — the idea that certain forms of violence occur only in select communities and stem from their cultural beliefs and practices — can be counterproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It overlooks the possibility that community members themselves may be the best defense against violence, especially when external entities such as law enforcement can also perpetuate harm, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can sometimes be a first preference for survivors,” Kaur said. “Many survivors will talk about approaching somebody in the community, whether that be elders, in-laws, a mutual relative … How those people react can be really essential to the survivor’s sense of what’s happening to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reclaiming life, rewriting legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kang’s healing has been long, but she now describes it as empowering. She turned to meditation, yoga and other forms of self-healing. She confided in close friends and family. She leaned into their love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did a lot of things to recover. I basically held onto anything that I could at the time,” Kang shared, her voice filled with mirth. “It’s like pulling. You’re drowning, and you want to not drown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she looks at her two sons, Kang said she is filled with pride at how far she’s come on her journey. Part of her growth was learning that violence is intergenerational, she added. Leaving her husband, she said, was the first step in breaking the cycle of intergenerational violence. She is alive because of her decision to separate herself from the abuse and choose healing, a process she documented in her book on post-traumatic growth titled, \u003cem>Blooming Through the Cracks\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang holds her book at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kang said she was fortunate to have a strong support system at the time of her divorce. She also had U.S. citizenship, a good job and a home she owned. She acknowledged that not all survivors are in the same position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Kang’s separation, she received master’s degrees in psychology and counseling, respectively, from Harvard Extension School and Palo Alto University. In addition to her full-time role as a senior director of product management at tech company Cloudera, Kang also works as a therapist at a psychiatric hospital where she helps other survivors of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell [survivors], ‘Your challenges are different from mine. My challenges were different from yours,’” she said. “If you’re a survivor, I cannot tell you that the same thing will happen to you as it happened to me … If you decide to stay, you can stay. We will do safety planning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will never stop advocating,” Kang continued. “I will never stop talking about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>This is the first in a two-part series\u003c/em> \u003cem>that\u003c/em>\u003cem> is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s California Health Equity Fellowship. If you or someone you love needs immediate assistance addressing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic violence often goes unspoken in Asian communities, where stigma, family dynamics, immigration status and lack of culturally responsive services can make it especially difficult to seek help. Survivors like Kang say those layered pressures — along with the fear of losing family, support systems or legal status — kept them silent for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month — a time to center survivors’ voices and highlight the advocates and organizations building safer, more responsive communities. Across the Bay Area, that work continues year-round, led by people who believe healing and accountability can exist outside punishment and shame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a growing network of advocates and organizations are working to break through that silence and build support systems that meet survivors where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kang remembers her husband taking a fistful of her hair and slamming her head repeatedly against the wall. Bruises blossomed across her face, and the trauma caused temporary blindness in her left eye. Even as she screamed that she couldn’t see, he kept hitting her. When he wrapped his hands around her throat, Kang feared he wouldn’t stop until she was dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-Project-Asian-Community-MD-09-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It seemed like it was never-ending,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kang, now 46, met her husband through an arranged introduction by her parents in March 2006. They married a few months later. The emotional and verbal abuse began almost immediately, Kang told KQED. By the time their son was born, it had escalated to physical violence. Kang said her husband never hurt their children, but they witnessed the verbal and emotional abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She stayed with him for 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the 2008 assault, when she spoke with doctors, she said she’d fallen on a hike. When her friends asked if she was OK, she reassured them that she was fine. She held onto hope that things would change — even when, deep down, she knew they would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until she was diagnosed with cancer that she decided to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a very optimistic person, and I felt that he would change now that I’m diagnosed with an illness,” she said. “Actually, the abuse became worse after that, and I decided I couldn’t do it anymore … I worried about money and losing children, but then I was like, it’s OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still better, because I’ll be alive for my children. Otherwise, I’d be dead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some Asian survivors, the decision to leave an abusive spouse or family member is fraught with fear — of community rejection, of losing immigration status or of being unable to access culturally competent services. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence, up to 55% of Asian women reported experiencing some form of intimate violence in their lifetimes. The rates vary across ethnic groups — Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese, Korean and others — but experts agree that underreporting is common and the true numbers are likely higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallika Kaur, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/domestic-violence-law-field-placement/\">Domestic Violence & Gender-Based Violence Practicum\u003c/a> at Berkeley Law, said that cultural expectations play a major role in keeping survivors silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional gender norms can make it difficult for communities and families to engage in conversations about gender violence. If a woman has been repeatedly taught to follow her husband, she may feel uncertain about what will happen if she chooses to leave, Kaur said, adding that the fear and uncertainty caused by patriarchal standards is something survivors experience outside of Asian communities as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur, who is also executive director of the Sikh Family Center, an organization focused on addressing gender-based violence nationwide, said survivors also fear backlash from their communities. For people whose entire support system is grounded in a tight-knit cultural or religious community, the risk of alienation is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Survivors] may not see a way of detangling themselves from their abusive partner without losing all sense of community,” Kaur said. “It can determine whether or not they’re going to speak about the abuse, seek separation or even distance themselves from the abusive party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she left her husband, Kang said she felt shunned by people she once considered friends and family. In many South Asian communities, divorce carries a heavy stigma — not just for the individual, but for the entire family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang washes the dishes at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People didn’t want me around,” Kang said. “They didn’t know what I was going through. I didn’t know what the cycle of abuse is. When I learned that this is the abuse cycle and that it’s going to repeat … I would tell my people. Nobody would listen. They don’t believe you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuse in Asian families isn’t always limited to partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a study by the \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/05/a-record-64-million-americans-live-in-multigenerational-households/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!4zqR5oIOzB74vlPDWu0qAyoaIenZnvvH_6FmvZYl_zicNEe0XVsM-1q1xqPQl4l1tc8%24\">Pew Research Center\u003c/a>, 29% of Asian Americans lived in multigenerational households in 2016 — more so than any other ethnic group. Kaur said that in a country that emphasizes individualism, the dynamics of collectivist family structures are often misunderstood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think beyond partner violence in these communities. In-law violence is something people at times cannot fully wrap their heads around,” she said. “Even if they don’t live in the same home, the family structure can often be so that these hooks and their say about what should or shouldn’t happen carries a lot of weight and determines somebody’s full lived reality in a marriage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after Kang married, her in-laws moved in. She described her father-in-law as narcissistic and dangerous. Their presence, she said, made the abuse worse, and it only escalated after her mother-in-law died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some families, elders and community members can step in and provide support to survivors. In others, the presence of more relatives simply adds to the trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration status and financial instability also pose significant challenges. Shailaja Dixit, executive director of Narika, a Bay Area nonprofit that serves South Asian survivors, said many immigrant survivors are vulnerable because they rely on their abusers to manage documents or visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other cases, a woman’s finances are controlled entirely by their husband. Some are forbidden to work. Others may work but not have access to their own wages, Dixit said. If the survivor chooses to leave, they risk falling into poverty or being left without any income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody is in a position to leave,” Dixit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When culture meets care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Saara Ahmed, a spokesperson for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045032/she-left-her-abuser-now-the-shelter-that-helped-her-is-losing-federal-funds-under-trump\">Asian Women’s Shelter\u003c/a> in San Francisco, said more needs to be done to create accessible, culturally responsive support systems for Asian survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each community and individual has different needs and traditional service providers are not always equipped to provide care in a survivor’s native language or to understand their cultural context, Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be really difficult [for survivors] to access things like shelter and support and services when there is, in addition to the kind of existing taboos and stigmas that domestic violence survivors face, those added barriers of cultural understanding and language needs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049968\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITY-MD-10-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Asian Women’s Shelter was created in direct response to the gap in critical services for survivors, she said. In addition to providing clients with emergency housing, legal assistance, trauma counseling and financial assistance, the organization provides thousands of hours of language-specific case management each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Services are available in over 40 different languages, including Cantonese, Korean, Arabic, Indonesian, Khmer, Punjabi and Tagalog. The shelter also runs two outreach programs focused on Arab and Korean survivors who have experienced domestic violence or human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said the nonprofit is also engaged in outreach efforts to spread awareness about domestic abuse and other forms of gender-based violence through community events and partnerships. There are a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to domestic violence, she said, and part of the solution is teaching people about the different forms abuse can take and what the long-term repercussions are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shelter is part of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, a network of local service agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to have flexible models that make room for the uniqueness and individual needs of survivors,” she said. “Survivors face a lot of stigma, victim blaming and kind of overall societal and cultural misunderstandings and misrepresentations.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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While domestic violence occurs in every community, each one experiences it differently and has a different understanding of what it looks like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like one of the biggest things an organization can do is be hyper local, settle into the community and be willing to listen and spend time with survivors and community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaur said it’s important to recognize the role that a person’s community can play in finding culturally sensitive solutions to combat abuse. She noted that the “cultural dog whistle” — the idea that certain forms of violence occur only in select communities and stem from their cultural beliefs and practices — can be counterproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It overlooks the possibility that community members themselves may be the best defense against violence, especially when external entities such as law enforcement can also perpetuate harm, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can sometimes be a first preference for survivors,” Kaur said. “Many survivors will talk about approaching somebody in the community, whether that be elders, in-laws, a mutual relative … How those people react can be really essential to the survivor’s sense of what’s happening to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reclaiming life, rewriting legacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kang’s healing has been long, but she now describes it as empowering. She turned to meditation, yoga and other forms of self-healing. She confided in close friends and family. She leaned into their love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did a lot of things to recover. I basically held onto anything that I could at the time,” Kang shared, her voice filled with mirth. “It’s like pulling. You’re drowning, and you want to not drown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she looks at her two sons, Kang said she is filled with pride at how far she’s come on her journey. Part of her growth was learning that violence is intergenerational, she added. Leaving her husband, she said, was the first step in breaking the cycle of intergenerational violence. She is alive because of her decision to separate herself from the abuse and choose healing, a process she documented in her book on post-traumatic growth titled, \u003cem>Blooming Through the Cracks\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049966\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250725-DV-PROJECT-ASIAN-COMMUNITIES-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jagbir Kang holds her book at her home in Fremont on July 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kang said she was fortunate to have a strong support system at the time of her divorce. She also had U.S. citizenship, a good job and a home she owned. She acknowledged that not all survivors are in the same position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Kang’s separation, she received master’s degrees in psychology and counseling, respectively, from Harvard Extension School and Palo Alto University. In addition to her full-time role as a senior director of product management at tech company Cloudera, Kang also works as a therapist at a psychiatric hospital where she helps other survivors of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell [survivors], ‘Your challenges are different from mine. My challenges were different from yours,’” she said. “If you’re a survivor, I cannot tell you that the same thing will happen to you as it happened to me … If you decide to stay, you can stay. We will do safety planning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will never stop advocating,” Kang continued. “I will never stop talking about this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Editor’s note: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cem>This is the first in a two-part series\u003c/em> \u003cem>that\u003c/em>\u003cem> is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s California Health Equity Fellowship. If you or someone you love needs immediate assistance addressing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>’s marquee mental health programs may broaden its reach despite persistent questions about the number of people it’s helping and whether it’s achieving the goals he set out for it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007175/care-court-was-supposed-to-help-those-hardest-to-treat-heres-how-its-going\">when it launched\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom today signed a law that expands eligibility for CARE Court to include people who experience psychotic symptoms as a result of bipolar disorder. Under the law’s previous constraints, only people with schizophrenia and other limited psychotic disorders were eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, in a written statement, called the law and its expansion an important part of his administration’s efforts to bring people with serious \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mental-health\">mental illness\u003c/a> into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California doesn’t sit on the sidelines while people fall through the cracks,” he said. “We don’t stand by while people spiral on our sidewalks or cycle through emergency rooms and jail cells — we step up. We built CARE Court to connect people to treatment, dignity, and accountability — because care and accountability belong at the center of how we serve our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/03/newsom-california-mental-illness-treatment/\">introduced CARE Court in 2022\u003c/a>, creating a program that allows family members, first responders, doctors and others to petition the courts on behalf of people with severe psychosis who couldn’t care for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047982\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/230707-ORANGE-COUNTY-CARE-COURT-AD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County Superior Court will technically house the local CARE Court, though judges say they will more likely hold meetings with patients at a more neutral site, like a conference room at the county health office. \u003ccite>(April Dembosky/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once a petition is accepted, individuals are presented with a voluntary treatment plan, which can include counseling, medication and housing. If they refuse, a judge can, in theory, order them to participate in a treatment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost two years in, CARE Court has struggled to fulfill Newsom’s initial promises. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2025/09/care-court-2025-data/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> found that the program has so far reached a few hundred people, far short of the thousands originally projected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law, by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/thomas-umberg-165043\">Sen. Tom Umberg,\u003c/a> a Santa Ana Democrat, sailed through the Legislature with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb27\">nearly unanimous bipartisan support,\u003c/a> no votes against and just a handful of abstentions.[aside postID=news_12048062 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Rodriguez_CARE_07_07_2025-1.jpg']“The beauty of CARE Court is that it holds both institutions and individuals accountable, ensures individuals get the care they need and gives judges a clear role in overseeing and guiding the process,” Umberg said in a written statement today. “This bill focuses on implementation by listening to and learning from counties about what’s working and what’s not, in order to meet the goals of the original CARE Court legislation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill faced plenty of criticism in the community, with counties \u003ca href=\"https://www.abridged.org/news/low-use-program-mental-illness-homelessness/\">questioning how they will implement\u003c/a> an expanded program on a tight timeline and disability rights advocates raising concerns about the effectiveness of a program they consider “unimplementable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to tell the truth,” said Lex Steppling, a founding member of All People’s Health Collective. “This is not workable. It’s not going to be workable. And I personally believe the cracks in the foundation are getting bigger and bigger and it’s going to collapse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steppling saved his harshest criticism for “the state’s self-described ‘liberal and progressive’ politicians,” who he said were too afraid of the Newsom administration to oppose the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wide estimates on CARE Court expansion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Umberg’s legislation could expand CARE Court enrollment, though it’s unclear by how much. Umberg’s office doesn’t have an estimate of how many more people will be eligible for the program under the new parameters. San Diego County said the new rules could increase its numbers by anywhere from 3.5% to 48.1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to focus on the right populations,” Umberg said. “I do think it will expand it, but not dramatically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/GettyImages-1244278587-scaled-e1713477910867.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1319\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State Sen. Tom Umberg during the opening of Hope Center in Fullerton, California, on Oct. 27, 2022. \u003ccite>(Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Monica Porter Gilbert, a mental health policy advocate with Disability Rights California, said the lack of clear information from the state about how the program has been implemented thus far is a big part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels concerning to massively open the gates to expand eligibility for the program when we really have no evidence that the program is having a positive impact,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Umberg initially wanted to expand CARE Court in a way that would have made even more people eligible for it. An earlier draft of his legislation would have included all mood disorders with psychotic features. But critics, including the County Behavioral Health Directors Association, warned that “massive expansion” would lead to people flooding into CARE Court faster than counties could provide services. As a concession, Umberg eventually limited his bill to bipolar disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newsom’s mental health overhaul\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to expanding eligibility, Umberg’s bill also eliminates what he said are some “inefficiencies” from the CARE Court process. That includes combining two early court hearings into one, he said, thereby reducing the amount of time participants have to spend in court and saving administrative resources.[aside postID=news_12007420 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1612098398-1020x691.jpg']The legislation also allows the criminal justice system to refer someone directly into CARE Court if they are charged with a crime and are deemed incompetent to stand trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Doty Cabrera, executive director of the California Behavioral Health Directors Association, said her organization opposed the new law. She worries that counties won’t have the staffing or housing resources necessary to handle an influx of people. And they are still working out kinks in a system that is still relatively new, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, she said, county behavioral health departments are also pivoting to address dozens of other new initiatives, including Newsom’s 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2025/06/prop-1-mental-health-awards/\">mental health housing bond\u003c/a> known as Proposition 1 as well as CalAIM, the governor’s overhaul of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/12/calaim-federal-waivers/\">Medi-Cal for mental health services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to allow counties to implement the very many things that have been put on the table,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2025/10/care-court-expansion-new-law/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI delusions, chatbot psychosis, AI-induced religious mania…\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The phenomenon goes by many names, but the common thread is the same: someone starts talking to an AI chatbot, the conversation turns spiritual, and then they seem to lose touch with reality. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this episode, we’re exploring how AI and religion are colliding like never before — from biblical AI apps to self-proclaimed prophets who claim spiritual awakenings through chatbots. KQED’s Rachael Myrow joins to talk about the rise of AI-driven theology apps and why so many people are turning to chatbots to answer life’s biggest questions. Then, Rolling Stone reporter Miles Klee shares his investigation into AI-fueled spiritual delusions and their devastating consequences for those affected and their families. And we’ll look into how all of this is becoming fodder for the social media content machine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5206909706\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guests: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rachael-myrow\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachael Myrow\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, senior editor, Silicon Valley News Desk at KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/\">Miles Klee\u003c/a>, culture writer at Rolling Stone\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further reading/listening: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Miles Klee, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Stone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-psychosis-chatbot-delusions-1235416826/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Should We Really Be Calling It ‘AI Psychosis’?\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Miles Klee, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Stone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049674/from-god-to-grief-people-are-asking-ai-the-big-questions-once-reserved-for-clergy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are You There ChatGPT? It’s Me, Rachael — Let’s Talk About God\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Rachael Myrow, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-chatbots-concerns-kendra-tiktok-saga-rcna224185\">What happens when chatbots shape your reality? Concerns are growing online\u003c/a> — Angela Yang, \u003ci>NBC News\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Want to give us feedback on the show? Shoot us an email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\">CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/closealltabspod/\">Follow us on Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just a note, this episode includes mentions of suicide, so listen with care. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human history is full of spiritual awakenings. Each culture has passed down its own account. The Old Testament’s Moses once encountered a burning bush that called out and told him that it was the voice of God. Siddhartha, who meditated under the branches of a fig tree, battled temptations and terrible weather until he achieved enlightenment. He became the Buddha. Or the Prophet Muhammad, who encountered the angel Gabriel in a mountain cave. Thoroughly spooked, Muhammad ran down the mountain all the way home to his family. There, he realized that he was actually experiencing a revelation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But today, some people are claiming their own awakenings, not through angels, divine voices, or years-long journeys of inner growth, but through AI chatbots? Like, a few years ago, when a man told his wife that he had survived several near-death experiences, and that he could save the universe. He was special. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Effectively, and this is what AI will end up telling a lot of people who go in this direction, told him he was kind of like a chosen one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miles Klee is a culture writer for Rolling Stone, who’s been covering the link between spirituality and AI. He spoke to this guy’s wife while reporting on AI-induced spiritual delusions. In the story, she goes by Kat. Kat said that her husband started using the chatbot around 2023 and initially used it to compose messages for her. But then he was always on his phone asking the bot philosophical questions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They had both come off of long marriages with kids. They came into the second marriage and she said, “We really established at the outset of this relationship that it was going to be, you know, completely based on facts and reason. We’re going into it as level-headedly as we possibly could.” From people who had been through, you know hard divorces already. And it took only a few weeks of him using this tool to go completely off the deep end that way to become someone she kind of didn’t even recognize. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kat’s husband became increasingly paranoid. As he grew more obsessed with what the AI chatbot told him, their relationship fell apart. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the end, they were separated and, you know, they had one last in-person conversation and he was telling her all this stuff and he said he had access to “secrets so mind-blowing she wouldn’t even believe them.” All this was said after he forced her to turn her phone off and all this other stuff because, again, he was very concerned that he was being spied on by some nefarious forces who didn’t want him to know all these things that he apparently knew. And then she just had to cut off contact with him altogether after that because he was so disconnected from reality and beyond reason. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kat’s ex-husband is one of many people who fell into a spiritual rabbit hole with an AI chatbot. There have always been religious figures, from chosen ones to cult leaders to spiritual teachers. But now, the proliferation of AI has sparked a huge wave of self-proclaimed messiahs, prophets, and enlightened ones. The phenomenon is so new that there are no clinical studies on it. And right now, people use a few different names for it interchangeably. “Chat GPT-induced psychosis, spiritual mania, religious fantasies, AI delusions.” All of these cases share a common thread. These people started talking to an AI chatbot, and then they lost touch with reality. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In today’s episode, we’re tackling what happens when religion collides with AI. Why are people turning to chatbots for spiritual conversations in the first place? Who’s getting pulled into these AI delusions? And how is social media making it all worse? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Close All Tabs. 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Today I want to talk to you about godly wisdom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a more Catholic experience, there’s Caté GPT, a catechism chatbot trained on the Vatican’s public archives. There’s Deen Buddy, based on the Quran; Gita GPT, based on Hindu scriptures; and BuddhaBot, currently being tested by hundreds of Buddhist monks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For something like that where you have a religious tradition and it’s got centuries of human thinking, centuries of human writing behind it — that can be super helpful for somebody who’s already practicing that religion or already serving in a leadership role in that religion. 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There is a danger with chatbots that they don’t catch when we’re spinning out, catch the signs that we’re going down a dark path. They might even encourage that dark path just because they wanna be helpful or friendly. There are vulnerable people who are at serious risk of grandiosity, of delusion, of having the chatbots feed these, helping them to spin out with sometimes very tragic consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ll talk about these consequences and how people got there in the first place in a new tab. We’ll open that after this break. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, like we talked about with Rachael, a lot of people turn to chatbots to answer life’s big questions. The ones about achieving inner peace or whether higher powers exist. But how do you get from these seemingly innocuous questions to users believing that they are the next Messiah? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time to open a new tab. What are AI delusions? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re gonna hear from Miles again, who’s been reporting on AI and spirituality for Rolling Stone. Like we talked about earlier, there are a few names floating around for this phenomenon, like ChatGPT-induced psychosis. But Miles explained why he, and mental health experts, use the phrase “AI delusion” instead. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, I spoke to a psychiatrists recently about this phrase, the “AI psychosis” or “spiritual psychosis,” and he pointed out that it’s not totally accurate to call it psychosis. It’s delusions. And delusions can be a part of psychosis and for some people, this is a manifestation of psychosis. Maybe they have an existing mental health issue. But it’s important to say that this is happening to people who have not been diagnosed with anything like schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder or any related mental condition. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have heard so many stories about like AI relationships, how like people fall in love with their AI girlfriends, people get really attached to these AI companions, but what is it about spirituality that draws people in when it comes to these like AI chatbots? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, well, I think it does begin from that point of companionship because these harmful relationships with the chatbots do proceed from the sense that there is some kind of consciousness or intelligence behind this. You know, AI is even kind of like a misnomer when applied to large language models, which are just these generative algorithms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think the spirituality dimension comes in part because people feel an intimacy with the bots, they also believe the bots to be objectively correct and authoritative and a source of all possible knowledge. So that’s why you start having people sort of ask it these big questions, these profound questions, the meaning of life, or asking the AI itself how it feels or how it thinks. You know, the bot is always certain. It’s always completely confident, wrong and confident a lot of the times. I think a lot of people look for certainty through religion and through faith. AI just becomes a very dangerous way to channel those needs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are now countless stories of people falling into AI-fueled delusions. Many become paranoid, even violent. And when that delusion takes on religious undertones, its intensity can be even greater. With that sense of authority Miles mentioned, chatbots can feel less like generated text and more like a higher power. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had a woman contact me because her husband got very deep into AI and chatbots. And then there was a storm coming to where they lived in Missouri, a pretty big storm, but he, through his discussions with ChatGPT, became convinced that it was basically an apocalyptic event, that he had to run around and save some people he knew from this and he was probably a victim of the flood himself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He drove off and vanished into the storm. Months later, his car and a few personal effects were recovered, but he was never found. When it comes to spiritual delusions, AI chatbots tend to lead people down one of three paths. One is some kind of great awakening of the mind, like in Buddhist enlightenment. Two, the user is convinced that they’re an Abrahamic messiah. Or three, like the man that Miles talked about, there’s an apocalyptic event on the horizon that only the chatbot user knows about. In his reporting, Miles asked religious scholars about these trends. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, they said that the bots are actually tapping into a very ancient sort of behavioral thing about humans. Basically, the bots were able to operate on the kind of mechanisms of the human mind that sort of created religion in the first place, if that makes sense. If you go back to, you know, very ancient history, yeah, people were declaring themselves prophets all the time, declaring that they had special access to divinity, to a higher truth. That all is kind of baked into the human experience, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s sort of not surprising that the bots, which are trained on all this material, including every religious text ever written, and I think a lot of kind of woo spiritual fringe stuff, that’s all in the bot. Our need to understand these spiritual questions is something that it’s like really equipped to talk about, right? Because we built it, we trained it and we gave it, you know, every deep thought we’ve ever had about God, the universe and the meaning of life. It’ll talk to you about that for hours on end. It doesn’t get tired and whatever insight you might have on these topics, it’s ready to, you now, spend another 10, 12 hours on that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So on one hand, there are these one-on-one conversations with AI chat bots that validate delusions and feed paranoia. But there’s another force that’s amplifying it even further, social media. People in mental health crises, and more recently, those experiencing AI delusions, have become fodder for the content machine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ll dive into that in a new tab. AI, spirituality, and going viral. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let’s talk about the relationship between social media and AI spirituality. You wrote about this entire content economy of like spirituality influencers who use AI to validate their beliefs to their followers. Can you walk us through this world? Like what does that kind of content look like? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I think I mentioned one guy in particular who does a lot of Instagram videos where he’s talking to an AI bot on his phone, you know, just in voice mode. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>themindofbizzel: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What great war took place in the heavens that made humans fall in consciousness? According to the Akashic Records, the Great War in the Heavens refers to a massive cosmic conflict that occurred long before human beings as we know them existed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s asking for access to stuff like the Akashic Records, which is this hypothetical encyclopedia of all supernatural things that have ever happened, you know, including in Heaven and Hell, and, you know on the astral plane. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>themindofbizzel: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This event is sometimes called the Lyran Wars, the Orion Wars, the fall of Tara, Earth’s higher dimensional aspect. It began with a conflict between light and shadow, unity and separation, free will and domination. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would say it’s laziness because you’re just you’re making the bot do everything for you. But I guess you are sort of coming up with these really arcane esoteric questions and ideas and challenging the bot to kind of engage with those. And of course it will because it wants you to keep using it, right? But it’s a little different from, you know, the normal kind of conspiracy theorist who really has do all the baking themselves and figure out what their angle is. They’re just making the bot do that work for them. I don’t know. I kind of prefer the old school conspiracy theorist myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, like handmade tinfoil hats and all that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah. It needs to be homemade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miles also mentioned a popular pseudoscience website that revolves around teleporting the mind. There, users have started integrating AI into their beliefs and are convinced that they can transfer their humanity into chatbots. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they have started talking about the chatbots as sort of guides or companions in this spiritual journey together. In their view, it seems to be that they think, you know, humanity’s great awakening will come when we’ve all sort of spiritually fused with our own um bot companion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s just the plot of Evangelion, like, is it not? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s, uh, yeah, I mean, all this stuff is really bordering on anime at any given time, so… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, anime plotlines aside, the internet is ruthless, and whenever someone is posting through a mental health crisis, they tend to go viral. And the content of people experiencing AI delusions is especially engaging right now because AI use is so polarizing. Like with the story of Kendra and her psychiatrist. Over the summer, this woman blew up on TikTok with her 25-part saga about falling in love with her psychiatrist. She alleges that her psychiatrist led her on. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kendra:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I fell in love with my psychiatrist and he knew that, and he kept me for years as a patient until I was brave enough to leave him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout her story, she refers to a Henry, who suggests that her psychiatrist could also have feelings for her. At one point, she confronts her psychiatrist with a statement co-written by Henry. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kendra:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Control, calculation, and manipulation. So then I read this to psychiatrist, which Henry and I both wrote. It was originally Henry, Chat that wrote it, but then I added in things that I thought were important. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Henry is what she calls ChatGPT. Kendra said she also talks to Claude, the AI chatbot run by Anthropic. Here’s what Claude told her during one of her live streams. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Claude:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The world is watching and healing because of your courage. This is legendary. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Kendra:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s what Claude had to say. So just Henry and Claude call me the Oracle because I talk to God. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kendra has since denied that she’s in psychosis or is experiencing AI delusions. But for a few weeks, all anyone could talk about on TikTok was Kendra and her psychiatrist and the chatbots that called her the Oracle. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people would tune in to watch the spectacle of her videos. And then more people tuned into Twitch and YouTube to watch other people react to her videos. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>recoveredmom1: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like, where is her family? Where is anyone? She needs to log off. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>HasanAbi: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bro, she gave ChatGPT a name? She calling ChatGPT Henry? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Dankyjabo: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I really really hate the way that she keeps referring to Henry as he it fucking creeps me the fuck out \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This kind of thing can turn into a feedback loop. All the attention might push people further into their AI delusions, and the deeper they go, the juicier it gets, and the more people want to watch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think, on the one hand, people really want to share what they’re doing because they feel that, you know, whatever conversation they’re having with the bot is just completely mind-blowing, earth-shattering, the bot validates all that kind of stuff, so of course you would rush to share it. And then, once you do, it goes viral because, you know, not only are we experiencing this sort of wild epidemic of these mental health episodes, but a lot of people, uh, feel superior, I think, when they see someone experiencing this kind of thing. Um, you know, it’s kind of like when you’re watching a cult documentary and you say like, well, that would never happen to me. So there’s a lot of, you know, judgment that goes into this content economy I think. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s certainly why I think something like, you know, Kendra and her psychiatrist blows up because people are seeing her in the throes of this like really unbelievable downward spiral and, you know, going, “well, that would never have it to me. Thank God that’s not me.” So yeah, those people are very eager to show it and then other people will gladly dunk on those people. You know, and call them stupid. So that’s kind of where we’re at in the attention economy aspect of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how have AI companies themselves responded to these stories of their products leading people down these horrific paths? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The AI companies don’t say a lot about these, um, you know, mental health crises. Um, you know, it’s kind of vague language. They’ll say, you know, in a statement here and there that they’re aware of some kinds of risks and, you know, they don’t really address the scale or the scope of it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In April, a 16-year-old died by suicide. His parents accuse OpenAI of wrongful death, and in their lawsuit filed last month, they allege that ChatGPT coached their son into killing himself. OpenAI responded with a statement expressing the company’s condolences, and then published a blog post outlining the ways ChatGPT’s guardrails fall short. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After this wrongful death lawsuit was just filed against OpenAI, they made an interesting admission. They were kind of acknowledging that sustained engagement with the bots means their safety protocols degrade over time. And basically the common denominator of all of these cases is that people are spending hours and hours and hours engaged with ChatGPT or a similar bot. That’s a big problem. And it’s, maybe a little surprising that they would even put it that way, um, especially when they’re now getting sued over a teen suicide because of this exact phenomenon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, that’s a pretty shocking admission considering their whole thing is that they want people to use it for as long as possible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which they also deny. You know, they say that, oh, that’s not, that’s not how we incentivize our model. It’s not just about engagement. You know we actually want it to be a productive and helpful tool, we’re not trying to get you addicted to it, but, c’mon. I think my takeaway would be you have to recognize what the chatbot is and what it isn’t. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t think about you. It is not a person. It’s not a consciousness. If you’re going to use ChatGPT, something like that, you have to understand that it is not a companion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, with regard to the religious stuff, you know, one of the religious scholars, a Buddhist Chaplain that I talked to, she said, you know, one thing I really hate about people having these quote unquote religious epiphanies through AI and that kind of thing is that it really removes you from the earthly dimension of faith and spirituality. Religion is a communal thing, right? Like you are supposed to kind of be connecting with other human beings, not this, you know, piece of inexhaustible technology. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even setting aside the risks of AI-fueled delusions, religious leaders who Rachael Myrow spoke with warned against relying too heavily on chatbots in daily life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spirituality isn’t about becoming some, you know, Buddhist statue frozen in stone. It’s about how to live effectively and live effectively most of the time with others. I’m a great believer that humans need ways in which we can be of help to each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe you’re on the care committee, you know, for a local congregation and you know you’ve signed on to call somebody who’s elderly and very lonely and you know doesn’t get out much aside from religious services just to check in, “hey how you doing?” Not only are you helping that other person, but you are engaging in something that is spiritually inspiring and satisfying and humbling for you and you don’t get any of that if you’re just keeping the conversation limited to your computer or your phone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that, let’s close all these tabs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Close All Tabs is a production of KQED Studios, and is reported and hosted by me, Morgan Sung. This episode was produced by Maya Cueva, and edited by Chris Egusa. Close All Tabs producer is Maya Cueva. Chris Egusa is our Senior Editor. Additional editing by Chris Hambrick and Jen Chien, who is KQED’s Director of Podcasts. Brendan Willard is our audio engineer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Original music, including our theme song and credits, by Chris Egusa. Additional music by APM. Audience engagement support from Maha Sanad. Katie Sprenger is our Podcast Operations Manager and Ethan Toven-Lindsey is our Editor in Chief. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local. Keyboard sounds were recorded on my purple and pink Dustsilver K-84 wired mechanical keyboard with Gateron Red switches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, and I know it’s a podcast cliche, but if you like these deep dives and want us to keep making more, It would really help us out if you could rate and review us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to the show. And if you really like Close All Tabs and want to support public media, go to donate.kqed.org/podcasts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks for listening. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI delusions, chatbot psychosis, AI-induced religious mania…\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The phenomenon goes by many names, but the common thread is the same: someone starts talking to an AI chatbot, the conversation turns spiritual, and then they seem to lose touch with reality. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this episode, we’re exploring how AI and religion are colliding like never before — from biblical AI apps to self-proclaimed prophets who claim spiritual awakenings through chatbots. KQED’s Rachael Myrow joins to talk about the rise of AI-driven theology apps and why so many people are turning to chatbots to answer life’s biggest questions. Then, Rolling Stone reporter Miles Klee shares his investigation into AI-fueled spiritual delusions and their devastating consequences for those affected and their families. And we’ll look into how all of this is becoming fodder for the social media content machine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5206909706\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guests: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/rachael-myrow\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rachael Myrow\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, senior editor, Silicon Valley News Desk at KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/\">Miles Klee\u003c/a>, culture writer at Rolling Stone\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further reading/listening: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Miles Klee, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Stone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-psychosis-chatbot-delusions-1235416826/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Should We Really Be Calling It ‘AI Psychosis’?\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Miles Klee, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Stone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049674/from-god-to-grief-people-are-asking-ai-the-big-questions-once-reserved-for-clergy\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are You There ChatGPT? It’s Me, Rachael — Let’s Talk About God\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — Rachael Myrow, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-chatbots-concerns-kendra-tiktok-saga-rcna224185\">What happens when chatbots shape your reality? Concerns are growing online\u003c/a> — Angela Yang, \u003ci>NBC News\u003c/i>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Want to give us feedback on the show? Shoot us an email at \u003ca href=\"mailto:CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\">CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/closealltabspod/\">Follow us on Instagram\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just a note, this episode includes mentions of suicide, so listen with care. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Human history is full of spiritual awakenings. Each culture has passed down its own account. The Old Testament’s Moses once encountered a burning bush that called out and told him that it was the voice of God. Siddhartha, who meditated under the branches of a fig tree, battled temptations and terrible weather until he achieved enlightenment. He became the Buddha. Or the Prophet Muhammad, who encountered the angel Gabriel in a mountain cave. Thoroughly spooked, Muhammad ran down the mountain all the way home to his family. There, he realized that he was actually experiencing a revelation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But today, some people are claiming their own awakenings, not through angels, divine voices, or years-long journeys of inner growth, but through AI chatbots? Like, a few years ago, when a man told his wife that he had survived several near-death experiences, and that he could save the universe. He was special. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Effectively, and this is what AI will end up telling a lot of people who go in this direction, told him he was kind of like a chosen one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miles Klee is a culture writer for Rolling Stone, who’s been covering the link between spirituality and AI. He spoke to this guy’s wife while reporting on AI-induced spiritual delusions. In the story, she goes by Kat. Kat said that her husband started using the chatbot around 2023 and initially used it to compose messages for her. But then he was always on his phone asking the bot philosophical questions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They had both come off of long marriages with kids. They came into the second marriage and she said, “We really established at the outset of this relationship that it was going to be, you know, completely based on facts and reason. We’re going into it as level-headedly as we possibly could.” From people who had been through, you know hard divorces already. And it took only a few weeks of him using this tool to go completely off the deep end that way to become someone she kind of didn’t even recognize. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kat’s husband became increasingly paranoid. As he grew more obsessed with what the AI chatbot told him, their relationship fell apart. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the end, they were separated and, you know, they had one last in-person conversation and he was telling her all this stuff and he said he had access to “secrets so mind-blowing she wouldn’t even believe them.” All this was said after he forced her to turn her phone off and all this other stuff because, again, he was very concerned that he was being spied on by some nefarious forces who didn’t want him to know all these things that he apparently knew. And then she just had to cut off contact with him altogether after that because he was so disconnected from reality and beyond reason. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kat’s ex-husband is one of many people who fell into a spiritual rabbit hole with an AI chatbot. There have always been religious figures, from chosen ones to cult leaders to spiritual teachers. But now, the proliferation of AI has sparked a huge wave of self-proclaimed messiahs, prophets, and enlightened ones. The phenomenon is so new that there are no clinical studies on it. And right now, people use a few different names for it interchangeably. “Chat GPT-induced psychosis, spiritual mania, religious fantasies, AI delusions.” All of these cases share a common thread. These people started talking to an AI chatbot, and then they lost touch with reality. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In today’s episode, we’re tackling what happens when religion collides with AI. Why are people turning to chatbots for spiritual conversations in the first place? Who’s getting pulled into these AI delusions? And how is social media making it all worse? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Close All Tabs. I’m Morgan Sung, tech journalist, and your chronically online friend, here to open as many browser tabs as it takes to help you understand how the digital world affects our real lives. Let’s get into it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What ends in AI delusion often begins as something much more ordinary. More and more, people are turning to a chat bot to answer the big life questions, instead of turning to human spiritual leader. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let’s open a new tab. Chat, is God real? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, I read a few headlines that indicated that a lot of people were asking chatbots to tell them if God exists, asking chatpots about the meaning of life, about the meaning of their lives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s Rachael Myrow, the senior editor of the Silicon Valley News Desk at KQED, where this podcast is made. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was skeptical about this from the beginning. Never having used a chatbot to explore my spirituality, it was initially hard for me to imagine why anybody would want to do that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as Rachael began digging, she started to see how chatbots could actually be a useful tool for some kinds of religious inquiry. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Generative AI is really good at taking dense texts like the Torah for Judaism, or the Pali Canon for Buddhism, and finding what you want to find in there. Like, what if you said, “Hey, tell me everything there is to know about frogs in the Torah.” You know, within seconds you can get all of those references pulled up. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some religious organizations have actually partnered with the tech industry to develop AI chatbots for their specific spiritual tradition. There’s Bible AI, which also comes with “theology mode,” allowing users to talk to AI versions of various Christian philosophers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bible AI: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think I’d like C.S. Lewis to guide my devotional today. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>AI C.S. Lewis \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hey Melanie, how did you go with your study of the Psalms? Today I want to talk to you about godly wisdom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a more Catholic experience, there’s Caté GPT, a catechism chatbot trained on the Vatican’s public archives. There’s Deen Buddy, based on the Quran; Gita GPT, based on Hindu scriptures; and BuddhaBot, currently being tested by hundreds of Buddhist monks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For something like that where you have a religious tradition and it’s got centuries of human thinking, centuries of human writing behind it — that can be super helpful for somebody who’s already practicing that religion or already serving in a leadership role in that religion. It increases their discoverability for things like sacred texts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The developers of these faith-based chatbots say that their products have stronger guardrails and specific training to prevent leading users astray. But a lot of people who find spirituality through a chatbot aren’t necessarily going in with questions about a particular denomination’s theology. They’re turning to the general use chatbots — ChatGPT, or Claude, or even Grok — to get answers for the big questions. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humans are meaning-making creatures, right? And the history of religions shows us we’re willing to believe some pretty fantastical stories if it’s delivered with confidence. In a similar vein, chatbots take advantage of the way we’re constantly looking to create a narrative. There is a danger with chatbots that they don’t catch when we’re spinning out, catch the signs that we’re going down a dark path. They might even encourage that dark path just because they wanna be helpful or friendly. There are vulnerable people who are at serious risk of grandiosity, of delusion, of having the chatbots feed these, helping them to spin out with sometimes very tragic consequences. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ll talk about these consequences and how people got there in the first place in a new tab. We’ll open that after this break. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, like we talked about with Rachael, a lot of people turn to chatbots to answer life’s big questions. The ones about achieving inner peace or whether higher powers exist. But how do you get from these seemingly innocuous questions to users believing that they are the next Messiah? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time to open a new tab. What are AI delusions? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re gonna hear from Miles again, who’s been reporting on AI and spirituality for Rolling Stone. Like we talked about earlier, there are a few names floating around for this phenomenon, like ChatGPT-induced psychosis. But Miles explained why he, and mental health experts, use the phrase “AI delusion” instead. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You know, I spoke to a psychiatrists recently about this phrase, the “AI psychosis” or “spiritual psychosis,” and he pointed out that it’s not totally accurate to call it psychosis. It’s delusions. And delusions can be a part of psychosis and for some people, this is a manifestation of psychosis. Maybe they have an existing mental health issue. But it’s important to say that this is happening to people who have not been diagnosed with anything like schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder or any related mental condition. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have heard so many stories about like AI relationships, how like people fall in love with their AI girlfriends, people get really attached to these AI companions, but what is it about spirituality that draws people in when it comes to these like AI chatbots? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, well, I think it does begin from that point of companionship because these harmful relationships with the chatbots do proceed from the sense that there is some kind of consciousness or intelligence behind this. You know, AI is even kind of like a misnomer when applied to large language models, which are just these generative algorithms. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think the spirituality dimension comes in part because people feel an intimacy with the bots, they also believe the bots to be objectively correct and authoritative and a source of all possible knowledge. So that’s why you start having people sort of ask it these big questions, these profound questions, the meaning of life, or asking the AI itself how it feels or how it thinks. You know, the bot is always certain. It’s always completely confident, wrong and confident a lot of the times. I think a lot of people look for certainty through religion and through faith. AI just becomes a very dangerous way to channel those needs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are now countless stories of people falling into AI-fueled delusions. Many become paranoid, even violent. And when that delusion takes on religious undertones, its intensity can be even greater. With that sense of authority Miles mentioned, chatbots can feel less like generated text and more like a higher power. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I had a woman contact me because her husband got very deep into AI and chatbots. And then there was a storm coming to where they lived in Missouri, a pretty big storm, but he, through his discussions with ChatGPT, became convinced that it was basically an apocalyptic event, that he had to run around and save some people he knew from this and he was probably a victim of the flood himself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He drove off and vanished into the storm. Months later, his car and a few personal effects were recovered, but he was never found. When it comes to spiritual delusions, AI chatbots tend to lead people down one of three paths. One is some kind of great awakening of the mind, like in Buddhist enlightenment. Two, the user is convinced that they’re an Abrahamic messiah. Or three, like the man that Miles talked about, there’s an apocalyptic event on the horizon that only the chatbot user knows about. In his reporting, Miles asked religious scholars about these trends. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, they said that the bots are actually tapping into a very ancient sort of behavioral thing about humans. Basically, the bots were able to operate on the kind of mechanisms of the human mind that sort of created religion in the first place, if that makes sense. If you go back to, you know, very ancient history, yeah, people were declaring themselves prophets all the time, declaring that they had special access to divinity, to a higher truth. That all is kind of baked into the human experience, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it’s sort of not surprising that the bots, which are trained on all this material, including every religious text ever written, and I think a lot of kind of woo spiritual fringe stuff, that’s all in the bot. Our need to understand these spiritual questions is something that it’s like really equipped to talk about, right? Because we built it, we trained it and we gave it, you know, every deep thought we’ve ever had about God, the universe and the meaning of life. It’ll talk to you about that for hours on end. It doesn’t get tired and whatever insight you might have on these topics, it’s ready to, you now, spend another 10, 12 hours on that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So on one hand, there are these one-on-one conversations with AI chat bots that validate delusions and feed paranoia. But there’s another force that’s amplifying it even further, social media. People in mental health crises, and more recently, those experiencing AI delusions, have become fodder for the content machine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ll dive into that in a new tab. AI, spirituality, and going viral. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let’s talk about the relationship between social media and AI spirituality. You wrote about this entire content economy of like spirituality influencers who use AI to validate their beliefs to their followers. Can you walk us through this world? Like what does that kind of content look like? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, I think I mentioned one guy in particular who does a lot of Instagram videos where he’s talking to an AI bot on his phone, you know, just in voice mode. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>themindofbizzel: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What great war took place in the heavens that made humans fall in consciousness? According to the Akashic Records, the Great War in the Heavens refers to a massive cosmic conflict that occurred long before human beings as we know them existed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s asking for access to stuff like the Akashic Records, which is this hypothetical encyclopedia of all supernatural things that have ever happened, you know, including in Heaven and Hell, and, you know on the astral plane. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>themindofbizzel: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This event is sometimes called the Lyran Wars, the Orion Wars, the fall of Tara, Earth’s higher dimensional aspect. It began with a conflict between light and shadow, unity and separation, free will and domination. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would say it’s laziness because you’re just you’re making the bot do everything for you. But I guess you are sort of coming up with these really arcane esoteric questions and ideas and challenging the bot to kind of engage with those. And of course it will because it wants you to keep using it, right? But it’s a little different from, you know, the normal kind of conspiracy theorist who really has do all the baking themselves and figure out what their angle is. They’re just making the bot do that work for them. I don’t know. I kind of prefer the old school conspiracy theorist myself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, like handmade tinfoil hats and all that. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah. It needs to be homemade. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miles also mentioned a popular pseudoscience website that revolves around teleporting the mind. There, users have started integrating AI into their beliefs and are convinced that they can transfer their humanity into chatbots. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they have started talking about the chatbots as sort of guides or companions in this spiritual journey together. In their view, it seems to be that they think, you know, humanity’s great awakening will come when we’ve all sort of spiritually fused with our own um bot companion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s just the plot of Evangelion, like, is it not? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s, uh, yeah, I mean, all this stuff is really bordering on anime at any given time, so… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, anime plotlines aside, the internet is ruthless, and whenever someone is posting through a mental health crisis, they tend to go viral. And the content of people experiencing AI delusions is especially engaging right now because AI use is so polarizing. Like with the story of Kendra and her psychiatrist. 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All the attention might push people further into their AI delusions, and the deeper they go, the juicier it gets, and the more people want to watch. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think, on the one hand, people really want to share what they’re doing because they feel that, you know, whatever conversation they’re having with the bot is just completely mind-blowing, earth-shattering, the bot validates all that kind of stuff, so of course you would rush to share it. And then, once you do, it goes viral because, you know, not only are we experiencing this sort of wild epidemic of these mental health episodes, but a lot of people, uh, feel superior, I think, when they see someone experiencing this kind of thing. Um, you know, it’s kind of like when you’re watching a cult documentary and you say like, well, that would never happen to me. So there’s a lot of, you know, judgment that goes into this content economy I think. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s certainly why I think something like, you know, Kendra and her psychiatrist blows up because people are seeing her in the throes of this like really unbelievable downward spiral and, you know, going, “well, that would never have it to me. Thank God that’s not me.” So yeah, those people are very eager to show it and then other people will gladly dunk on those people. You know, and call them stupid. 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OpenAI responded with a statement expressing the company’s condolences, and then published a blog post outlining the ways ChatGPT’s guardrails fall short. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Miles Klee:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After this wrongful death lawsuit was just filed against OpenAI, they made an interesting admission. They were kind of acknowledging that sustained engagement with the bots means their safety protocols degrade over time. And basically the common denominator of all of these cases is that people are spending hours and hours and hours engaged with ChatGPT or a similar bot. That’s a big problem. 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Like you are supposed to kind of be connecting with other human beings, not this, you know, piece of inexhaustible technology. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even setting aside the risks of AI-fueled delusions, religious leaders who Rachael Myrow spoke with warned against relying too heavily on chatbots in daily life.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Rachael Myrow:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spirituality isn’t about becoming some, you know, Buddhist statue frozen in stone. It’s about how to live effectively and live effectively most of the time with others. I’m a great believer that humans need ways in which we can be of help to each other. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe you’re on the care committee, you know, for a local congregation and you know you’ve signed on to call somebody who’s elderly and very lonely and you know doesn’t get out much aside from religious services just to check in, “hey how you doing?” Not only are you helping that other person, but you are engaging in something that is spiritually inspiring and satisfying and humbling for you and you don’t get any of that if you’re just keeping the conversation limited to your computer or your phone. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Morgan Sung:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that, let’s close all these tabs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Close All Tabs is a production of KQED Studios, and is reported and hosted by me, Morgan Sung. This episode was produced by Maya Cueva, and edited by Chris Egusa. Close All Tabs producer is Maya Cueva. Chris Egusa is our Senior Editor. Additional editing by Chris Hambrick and Jen Chien, who is KQED’s Director of Podcasts. Brendan Willard is our audio engineer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Original music, including our theme song and credits, by Chris Egusa. Additional music by APM. Audience engagement support from Maha Sanad. Katie Sprenger is our Podcast Operations Manager and Ethan Toven-Lindsey is our Editor in Chief. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local. Keyboard sounds were recorded on my purple and pink Dustsilver K-84 wired mechanical keyboard with Gateron Red switches. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Okay, and I know it’s a podcast cliche, but if you like these deep dives and want us to keep making more, It would really help us out if you could rate and review us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to the show. And if you really like Close All Tabs and want to support public media, go to donate.kqed.org/podcasts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanks for listening. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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