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"content": "\u003cp>The final countdown has begun for the last of three large state-run institutions that care for the severely disabled: In less than six years, almost all of their residents are likely to be transferred to other settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">It's the end of a long era in providing care to people in large institutional settings\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The public comment period ended last week on a plan to move 776 patients currently housed at the three development centers into smaller community-based homes. The state expects the move to save it roughly $250 million a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average cost of caring for those patients — who have conditions such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, brain injuries and severe autism — is $500,000 a year per person, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office in Sacramento. Following previous closures of sister institutions and the transfer of their residents to smaller local facilities, the average cost fell to about $180,000 per patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Last 3 Centers are in Sonoma, Costa Mesa and Porterville\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shutting down facilities in Sonoma and Costa Mesa, and partially closing a third site in Porterville, will not only save money on patient care, it also will open up some prime real estate opportunities for the state-owned sites. What the state will do with the land and the many large buildings that sit on it is still being publicly debated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Porterville site will move roughly half of its patients. The rest, 211 developmentally disabled felons in the center’s secure treatment area, can’t be moved into the community and will remain where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A much smaller state-run residential facility, Canyon Springs in Cathedral City — near Palm Springs — will continue to house its 55 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also up for debate in the Capitol next week will be the amount of money earmarked by the state to finance the closures and patient transitions. A legislative budget hearing on March 16 will examine the cost of doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concerns of Insufficient Staffing \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3382?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=traditional\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>report released Friday \u003c/u>\u003c/a>by the Legislative Analyst’s Office raised concern about the potential loss of federal money during the roughly six years it will take to nearly empty the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the LAO, federal officials have been worried about insufficient staffing and inadequate care at the centers, as well as their failure to follow up on cases of abuse and neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feds will be carefully monitoring the state to make sure it complies with all requirements for the health and safety of residents in the new, smaller community settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s final proposal will be presented to the legislature Apr. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is the latest — and last — move in California’s shift away from providing care in large residential centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the state has been slowly shuttering them and moving its developmentally disabled residents into smaller facilities. At the system’s peak in 1968, 10 large developmental centers housed more than 13,000 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The switch to community-based care in smaller group homes, along with the creation of 21 non-residential regional centers to coordinate that transition and provide other services across the state, has siphoned away most of the population at the larger centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the state shut down three other developmental centers — Agnews in Santa Clara, Lanterman in Pomona and Sierra Vista in Yuba City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three big centers currently operating, Sonoma is expected to be closed by the end of 2018; the one in Costa Mesa and the non-secure area of Porterville, by the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Shift in Philosophy\" -- With Some Criticism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of care is not the only reason for shutting down the centers, said John Doyle, chief deputy director of the state’s Department of Developmental Services, which operates them and is coordinating the closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every decision in government at some level is a monetary decision,” Doyle said. “But this is more of a shift in philosophy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the newer model of care, he said, “people can make their own decisions about their own life,” rather than having their daily schedule dictated by an institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That thought is cold comfort for Christina Nielsen, whose son Tom has lived off and on for the past eight years at the Costa Mesa facility, known as the Fairview Developmental Center. He has severe autism and is called a “runner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tom has a long history of wandering away and running,” Nielsen said. A court order placed him in the Fairview center and he needs to stay there, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure of the centers, Nielsen said, “is a death sentence for my son, and others like him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nielsen said Tom has been moved three times already from Fairview’s institutional setting to smaller “crisis centers” — and it hasn’t gone well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He ran away from a caregiver and onto the 101 freeway and was hit by a car,” she recounted. “He has been in three other crisis homes and failed [at] each of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the closure plan, the state is creating half a dozen community crisis homes across the state, which have many clinical services built in for patients with complex physical issues. It is also creating homes that offer what officials call “enhanced behavioral supports,” such as medical staff members with special training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People will see it can work,” Doyle said. “There are people we serve already who have challenging behaviors who have never been institutionalized. So it definitely can work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disability Rights California, a Sacramento-based advocacy group, has endorsed the decision to close the developmental centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This plan ensures that residents may safely and successfully transition into the community,” said Jennifer Alfaro, a spokeswoman for the group. “California has successfully closed other [developmental] centers, which demonstrates we know how to do this right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was echoed by Carolyn Davis of Huntington Beach, an 89-year-old mother of a longtime Fairview center patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My daughter moved out last May, and I was one of the ones who definitely did not want that to happen,” Davis said. “I’m not one to rant and rave about it, but they certainly knew how I felt about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said she’s thrilled now, because her daughter is much happier and more engaged since she made the move to a smaller residential care facility in Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spent sleepless nights worrying about whether or not she would be OK,” Davis said. “I really was not believing it could go as well as it did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Davis added, she knows that won’t be the case for all of the residents at Fairview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some people it almost is impossible,” she said. “Others have not had it go so well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maggie Flavia has big worries about the transfer of her 43-year-old son, Pete, who had viral encephalopathy as a youngster and now has the mental status of a 3-year-old, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pete’s totally helpless, he’s totally dependent, he cannot communicate,” Flavia said. “And I fear he’s going to be in big trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doyle said he understands that fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Family members are rightfully scared about their loved ones’ well-being,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new community-based homes are “like a mini-clinic,” with ready access to physicians, well-trained staff members, and generators to run patients’ life-sustaining machines for three days in case of a power outage, Doyle said. “We’re hoping some of these new models of homes will be an answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flavia remains unconvinced, but at the same time she knows hope is fading for the prospect of keeping Fairview open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a big battle in front of us. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Porterville site will move roughly half of its patients. The rest, 211 developmentally disabled felons in the center’s secure treatment area, can’t be moved into the community and will remain where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A much smaller state-run residential facility, Canyon Springs in Cathedral City — near Palm Springs — will continue to house its 55 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also up for debate in the Capitol next week will be the amount of money earmarked by the state to finance the closures and patient transitions. A legislative budget hearing on March 16 will examine the cost of doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concerns of Insufficient Staffing \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3382?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=traditional\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cu>report released Friday \u003c/u>\u003c/a>by the Legislative Analyst’s Office raised concern about the potential loss of federal money during the roughly six years it will take to nearly empty the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the LAO, federal officials have been worried about insufficient staffing and inadequate care at the centers, as well as their failure to follow up on cases of abuse and neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The feds will be carefully monitoring the state to make sure it complies with all requirements for the health and safety of residents in the new, smaller community settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s final proposal will be presented to the legislature Apr. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is the latest — and last — move in California’s shift away from providing care in large residential centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past two decades, the state has been slowly shuttering them and moving its developmentally disabled residents into smaller facilities. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Anthony Rendon, D-Paramount, is sworn in as Assembly Speaker Monday, it will mark a historic moment in California politics: For the first time, the two top posts in the state legislature will be held by Latinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rendon will join Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, at the top of the Capitol’s political pyramid, a development that could signal much brighter prospects for health care legislation — especially the effort to provide adult immigrants who are living here illegally with coverage under Medi-Cal, the government program for people with low incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re witnessing is a dramatic surge in power. I think it will be a new and dramatic change in California,” said Jaime Regalado, a political science professor emeritus at California State University Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power of the Latino caucus in the state, he said, has reached a point where the top items on its agenda are becoming the top items on the legislature’s agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agenda is weighted toward health care and education, he noted — from Medi-Cal expansion to paid sick leave to health coverage for children of those in the United States illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from Rendon and de León, other Latino leaders in Sacramento also play a big role in Capitol health care politics, including Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, who heads the Senate Committee on Health and has authored dozens of health-related bills; Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, in Assembly Health, who spearheaded the mandate for paid sick leave; and Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, who wrote the bill to provide Medi-Cal coverage to children of people living in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has been calling [the Latino community] the sleeping giant for so many years. 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And following last year’s successful move to offer full Medi-Cal coverage to undocumented children in California, the next step is to extend it to their adult counterparts, according to Rendon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important, and it’s important now,” said incoming Assembly Speaker Rendon in an interview at last Saturday’s state Democratic convention in San Jose. “Covering undocumented immigrants is certainly something that resonates with me from a personal point of view, and from the caucus point of view it’s really high on our list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rendon noted that de León’s background also makes the Senate leader sympathetic to the goal of providing coverage for immigrants without legal documents. Because it requires heavy political lifting, he said, “it certainly needs to be near the top of the agenda to succeed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he joined the Assembly in 2012, Rendon was executive director of the nonprofit Plaza de la Raza Child Development Services, which provides social and medical services to children in Pico Rivera, east of Los Angeles. De León spent time as a community organizer for immigrant rights before becoming a member of the legislature in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Medi-Cal for immigrant children without papers was approved and will take effect in May, providing that coverage for adults with the same immigration status is highly controversial and promises to be a tough political slog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, the direction the legislature has taken over the past decade or two has been to serve people who are in California illegally, and that takes benefits from other people,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Federation for American Immigration Reform, which lobbied in Sacramento against “Medi-Cal for all” when it was first put before the legislature last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that just encourages people who violate laws, and deprives other people in the state of needed resources,” Mehlman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regalado said that despite strong opposition, Medi-Cal coverage for the adults could succeed with the expected political push from Rendon and de León.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will be emboldened,” Regalado said. “They have enormous political power right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rendon said access to health care, especially in rural areas, will also be a top legislative priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount spent on Medi-Cal could change too, said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the expansion of Medi-Cal began under the Affordable Care Act, enrollment in the program has expanded significantly. Medi-Cal now covers 13.3 million Californians — one-third of the state’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is now serving a huge percentage of Latinos in Medi-Cal,\" Kominski said, \"and that continues to be seen as underfunded. I think you’ll see increased attention on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Latino caucus, the largest political caucus in the state, flexed its political muscles last weekend at the state Democratic convention in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast to typically sedate, run-of-the-mill convention caucus meetings, the Latino caucus meeting last week was a high-energy event, more akin to a family reunion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To one side of the front stage, a corner set aside for visiting dignitaries was packed with dozens of political heavyweights — a who’s who of legislators all waiting for their one minute at the microphone to address the crowded room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a blue state because of this community!” shouted former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the cheering crowd. “We are the future!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Latinos tend to share an interest in some issues, they are represented across the political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2014 report by the Public Policy Institute of California showed likely Latino voters register in far higher numbers as Democrats (59 percent) than as Republicans (18 percent) or independents (17 percent). 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from Rendon and de León, other Latino leaders in Sacramento also play a big role in Capitol health care politics, including Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, who heads the Senate Committee on Health and has authored dozens of health-related bills; Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, in Assembly Health, who spearheaded the mandate for paid sick leave; and Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, who wrote the bill to provide Medi-Cal coverage to children of people living in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has been calling [the Latino community] the sleeping giant for so many years. 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"content": "\u003cp>A pregnant woman in Napa has been confirmed positive for the Zika virus, the Napa County Public Health Division reported Wednesday. The agency received the confirmation from the California Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman, whom officials did not identify, had traveled to Central America in the last three months, and is not showing signs of Zika infection at present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This Zika virus case is not a threat to public health. There is no active transmission of Zika virus in Napa County, and the two kinds of mosquitos that transmit the virus have not been found here,” Dr. Karen Relucio, Napa County health officer, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone who is planning to travel to a country with active Zika virus transmission should consult with their health care provider before leaving,” she said, “especially if they are pregnant or are considering becoming pregnant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Napa public health officials say they expect to see more Zika cases. The agency is working with local doctors to test for cases of Zika virus both in pregnant women who have traveled to countries with Zika virus or who have sexual partners who have traveled to these countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its press release, Napa County Public Health stressed prevention:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Women who are pregnant or may become pregnant are advised to avoid travel to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/active-countries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">areas with Zika\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Women who are pregnant and have sexual partner(s) that have traveled to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/active-countries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">areas with Zika\u003c/a> are advised to abstain from sex or use condoms consistently for the duration of the pregnancy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Pregnant women or sexual partner(s) of pregnant women who cannot avoid travel to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/active-countries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">areas with Zika\u003c/a> are advised to take precautions to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/pdfs/fs_mosquito_bite_prevention_travelers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avoid mosquito bites\u003c/a> (This information is also available in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/zika/pdfs/fs_mosquito_bite_prevention_travelers_spanish.pdf\">Spanish\u003c/a>).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In Northern California, there has been\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article59651061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> one other reported case \u003c/a>of Zika, in a person who had recently traveled internationally. The person is a Yolo County resident. Statewide, there have been\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Documents/TravelAssociatedCasesofZikaVirusinCA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> six confirmed Zika cases\u003c/a> so far this year, but a spokesman for the state’s Department of Public Health said he could not confirm the location of each case, for privacy reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zika is an illness caused by the Zika virus, and it’s spread mostly through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito. While these mosquitos are found in California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Documents/AedesDistributionMap.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they are not widespread.\u003c/a> Common symptoms include fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis or red eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the U.S. 107 people have contracted Zika after they traveled to a country where the virus is present, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/zika/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC reports\u003c/a> that there are no cases of people in the U.S. who have acquired Zika from a mosquito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zika was first discovered in 1947 in Uganda and then spread through tropical Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2015, Brazil had its first confirmed case of Zika. It spread dramatically through South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. On Feb. 1, the World Health Organization declared Zika a “\u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/emergency-committee-zika-microcephaly/en/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public health emergency of international concern.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Zika is a relatively mild illness, it appears to put pregnant women at increased risk of their baby having microcephaly, a birth defect where the baby has a small head. Zika is also associated with increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, an immune system disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more information about Zika \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/zika/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on this page\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to raise the age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21, joining more than \u003ca href=\"http://tobacco21.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Tobacco-21-Cities-new24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">120 cities across the country\u003c/a>, including New York and Boston, in the latest tactic to reduce smoking rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Berkeley and parts of Santa Clara County have already moved to put tobacco out of the hands of teenagers. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener, one of the authors of the measure, pointed to a \u003ca href=\"http://iom.nationalacademies.org/Activities/PublicHealth/TobaccoMinimumAge.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">major analysis \u003c/a>from the Institute of Medicine last year that showed people who start smoking as teens are more likely to become hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By increasing the legal age to buy tobacco products from the age of 18 to the age of 21, we will save lives,\" he said just before the vote. The measure applies to many tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a potential glitch. Tom Briant, executive director of the National Association of Tobacco Outlets says California law pre-empts cities from raising the age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There needs to be some resolution on these questions, and the best person to do that is the California attorney general,\" Briant said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briant stopped short of saying his organization would challenge San Francisco in court, but did say the board of his organization would meet in April and discuss both Santa Clara County and San Francisco's moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Documents/California%20Penal%20Codes%20308-308b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California law\u003c/a> states that 18 is the legal age to buy or possess tobacco products. In this passage, the Legislature seems to claim for itself the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Documents/California%20Penal%20Codes%20308-308b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> right to regulate tobacco\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is the Legislature's intent to regulate the subject matter of this section. As a result, no city, county, or city and county shall adopt any ordinance or regulation inconsistent with this section.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Wiener was unfazed. He said the San Francisco law did not interfere with state law and was unconcerned about challenges from the tobacco industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our city has a history of taking on major industries in the name of public health, in the name of consumers, and winning. And we will do so here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wine country city of Healdsburg was first in California to raise the tobacco age last fall, but declined to implement the higher age, apparently under pressure from the tobacco industry. Wiener said that with San Francisco's greater resources, the city would prevail in any court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Cohen, executive director of the Oakland-based advocacy group Prevention Institute, said he \"couldn't be more pleased\" with the supervisors' vote. The move to raise the tobacco age to 21 is \"gathering momentum nationally,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ninety-five percent of daily smokers pick up the habit before age 21,\" he said. \"So the 21 age is really a critical number\" to reduce the numbers of smokers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly San Franciscans who are 18, 19 and 20 would be able to travel to a nearby city to legally purchase tobacco, but the higher age \"would still have its impact,\" Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most would not be thinking, \"Can I get on a BART train and go to South San Francisco\" to buy cigarettes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure goes to the mayor later this month. A spokeswoman said he supports the move and will sign.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to raise the age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21, joining more than \u003ca href=\"http://tobacco21.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Tobacco-21-Cities-new24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">120 cities across the country\u003c/a>, including New York and Boston, in the latest tactic to reduce smoking rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Berkeley and parts of Santa Clara County have already moved to put tobacco out of the hands of teenagers. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener, one of the authors of the measure, pointed to a \u003ca href=\"http://iom.nationalacademies.org/Activities/PublicHealth/TobaccoMinimumAge.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">major analysis \u003c/a>from the Institute of Medicine last year that showed people who start smoking as teens are more likely to become hooked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By increasing the legal age to buy tobacco products from the age of 18 to the age of 21, we will save lives,\" he said just before the vote. The measure applies to many tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a potential glitch. Tom Briant, executive director of the National Association of Tobacco Outlets says California law pre-empts cities from raising the age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There needs to be some resolution on these questions, and the best person to do that is the California attorney general,\" Briant said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briant stopped short of saying his organization would challenge San Francisco in court, but did say the board of his organization would meet in April and discuss both Santa Clara County and San Francisco's moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Documents/California%20Penal%20Codes%20308-308b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California law\u003c/a> states that 18 is the legal age to buy or possess tobacco products. In this passage, the Legislature seems to claim for itself the\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Documents/California%20Penal%20Codes%20308-308b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> right to regulate tobacco\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is the Legislature's intent to regulate the subject matter of this section. As a result, no city, county, or city and county shall adopt any ordinance or regulation inconsistent with this section.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Wiener was unfazed. He said the San Francisco law did not interfere with state law and was unconcerned about challenges from the tobacco industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our city has a history of taking on major industries in the name of public health, in the name of consumers, and winning. And we will do so here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wine country city of Healdsburg was first in California to raise the tobacco age last fall, but declined to implement the higher age, apparently under pressure from the tobacco industry. Wiener said that with San Francisco's greater resources, the city would prevail in any court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larry Cohen, executive director of the Oakland-based advocacy group Prevention Institute, said he \"couldn't be more pleased\" with the supervisors' vote. The move to raise the tobacco age to 21 is \"gathering momentum nationally,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ninety-five percent of daily smokers pick up the habit before age 21,\" he said. \"So the 21 age is really a critical number\" to reduce the numbers of smokers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certainly San Franciscans who are 18, 19 and 20 would be able to travel to a nearby city to legally purchase tobacco, but the higher age \"would still have its impact,\" Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most would not be thinking, \"Can I get on a BART train and go to South San Francisco\" to buy cigarettes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure goes to the mayor later this month. A spokeswoman said he supports the move and will sign.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Psychiatric hospitalizations of Latino children and young adults in California are rising dramatically — at a much faster pace than among their white and black peers, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While mental health hospitalizations of young people of all ethnicities have climbed in recent years, Latino rates stand out. Among those 21 and younger, they shot up 86 percent, to 17,813, between 2007 and 2014, according to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. That’s compared with a 21 percent increase among whites and 35 percent among African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Everybody’s trying to hire Spanish-speaking clinicians. There’s just not enough to meet that demand.”\u003ccite>Leslie Preston, the behavioral health director of La Clínica de La Raza \u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No one knows for certain what’s driving the trend. Policymakers and Latino community leaders offer varying and sometimes contradictory explanations. Some say the numbers reflect a lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services for Latinos and a pervasive stigma that prevents many from seeking help before a crisis hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often, they wait until they are falling apart,” said Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, a professor at the University of California, Davis Medical School and director of the university’s Center for Reducing Health Disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others blame stress from the recent recession, family disintegration and an influx of traumatized children fleeing poverty and violence in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still others suggest the trend might actually be positive, reflecting an increasing willingness among Latino parents to seek treatment for themselves and their children, at least when they are in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Latino adults, psychiatric hospitalizations rose 38 percent during the same period. Similar hospitalizations of black adults increased 21 percent, while hospitalizations of white adults remained flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margarita Rocha, the executive director of the nonprofit Centro la Familia in Fresno, said mental health issues are starting to be discussed more publicly in the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s helping people to come forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155389\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/nubia-flores-4-e1456857767311.jpg\" alt=\"Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, works part-time at Family Paths, a counseling and mental health organization in Oakland. Miranda said she became interested in a career in mental health after she started experiencing depression and anxiety her freshman year at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, works part-time at Family Paths, a counseling and mental health organization in Oakland. Miranda said she became interested in a career in mental health after she started experiencing depression and anxiety her freshman year at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Berrick, CEO of the Seneca Family of Agencies, which serves children with emotional disturbances in a dozen counties, agreed. Because more Latinos are now getting mental health services, children are more likely to be identified as requiring hospitalization, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know for a fact that access to service is better now,” said Berrick, whose operation has a crisis stabilization unit in Alameda County, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids’ psychiatric hospitalizations overall rose nearly 45 percent between 2007 and 2014, regardless of ethnicity, a pattern experts attribute to various factors including a shortage of intensive outpatient and in-home services, schools’ struggles to pay for mental health services through special education and a decline in group home placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kids have to be treated somewhere,” said Dawan Utecht, Fresno County’s mental health director, of the move to keep kids out of group homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t get those services in a community setting, they’re going to go into crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise among Latino youths is remarkable in part because hospitalization rates for that population historically have been relatively low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino children remain much less likely to receive mental health treatment through Medi-Cal, the state and federal coverage program for poor and disabled residents. Between 2010 and 2014, less than 4 percent of Latino children received specialty mental health services through the traditional Medi-Cal program. That’s compared with 7 percent of eligible black and white children, according to state data. The numbers don’t include those enrolled in managed care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155378\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 370px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/latino-kids-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, at her home in Oakland. After participating in the mental health program at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, Miranda decided to major in psychology at San Francisco State University. \" width=\"370\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, at her home in Oakland. After participating in the mental health program at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, Miranda decided to major in psychology at San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders seek treatment at a rate even lower than Latinos. Although hospitalizations are also increasing rapidly among that population, the raw numbers remain relatively small.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Preston, the behavioral health director of La Clínica de La Raza, in East Oakland, says that the shortage of bilingual, bicultural mental health workers limits Latino kids’ access to preventive care, which could lead to crises later on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s trying to hire the Spanish-speaking clinicians,” she said. “There’s just not enough clinicians to meet that demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access to care can be even harder for recent immigrants. Spanish-speaking children who have been referred for a special education assessment, which can help them become eligible for mental health services, sometimes wait months or years before someone tests them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The families don’t know the system,” she added. “They don’t know their rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other clinicians point to relatively low health insurance coverage among Latinos, particularly those without legal status, and a cultural resistance to acknowledging mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Alok Banga, medical director at Sierra Vista Hospital in Sacramento, said some immigrant parents he encounters don’t believe in mental illness and have not grasped the urgency of their children’s depression and past suicide attempts. Many are working two or three jobs, he said. Some are undocumented immigrants afraid of coming to the hospital or having any interaction with Child Protective Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest problem, from his perspective, is the shortage of child psychiatrists and outpatient services to serve this population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default course for treatment falls on institutions: hospitals, jails and prisons,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Rackmil, director of the children’s system of care in Alameda County, said sheer population growth — particularly, an increase in Latino children insured under Medi-Cal — may also be part of the explanation for the rise in hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the state’s Latino population aged 24 and under increased less than 8 percent between 2007 and 2014, which doesn’t nearly explain an 86 percent increase in hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/students-4-e1456857496239.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Ochoa, 17, and Victor Ramirez, 17, work on an assignment during their behavioral health training at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Ochoa, 17, and Victor Ramirez, 17, work on an assignment during their behavioral health training at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some California communities are working to bring more Latino children into care and to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, a small, mostly Latino high school in East Oakland, students grow up amid pervasive violence and poverty. “We’re just told to hold things in,” said 17-year-old Hilda Chavez, a senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students often don’t seek help because they fear discussing mental health problems will earn them a label of “crazy,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the school, in conjunction with the Oakland-based La Clínica de La Raza, started a program to interest students in careers in mental health care. The program provides training in “first aid” instruction to help people in crisis, and places students in internships with mental health organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, participated in the program last year and now is majoring in psychology at San Francisco State University. Miranda said she became interested in a career in mental health after she experienced depression and anxiety during her freshman year at Life Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing a school counselor “changed my life around,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she saw that her peers were wary of seeking help from counselors at the school, most of whom were white and lived in wealthier, safer neighborhoods. Once, when a classmate started acting out at school, Miranda suggested she talk to someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me she didn’t feel like she could trust the person — they wouldn’t understand where she was coming from,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1921px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/students-8-e1456857368930.jpg\" alt=\"Graciela Perez, 17, and Nayely Espinoza, 17, hold up their group assignment during a class presentation at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. The students are preparing for their mental health internships. \" width=\"1921\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graciela Perez, 17, and Nayely Espinoza, 17, hold up their group assignment during a class presentation at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. The students are preparing for their mental health internships. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shortage of services is especially evident in the Central Valley, where many agricultural workers are Latino. Juan Garcia, an emeritus professor at California State University, Fresno, who founded a counseling center in the city, says the drought and economic downturn have exacerbated depression, anxiety, substance abuse and psychotic breaks among Latinos of all ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services to this population lag decades behind where they should be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno County, psychiatric hospitalizations of Latino youth more than tripled, to 432, between 2007 and 2014. Hospitalizations of their white and black peers about doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liliana Quintero Robles, a marriage and family therapy intern in rural Kings County, also in the state’s Central Valley, said she sees children whose mental health issues go untreated for so long that they end up cutting themselves and abusing alcohol, marijuana, crystal meth and OxyContin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some really, really deep-rooted suffering,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out in the unincorporated agricultural community of Five Points, about 45 minutes from Fresno, almost all of the students at Westside Elementary School are low-income Latinos. When principal Baldo Hernandez started there in 1981, he’d see maybe one child a year with a mental health issue. These days, he sees 15 to 30, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames dry wells and barren fields, at least in part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had parents crying at school, begging me to find them a home, begging me to find them a job,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some parts of the Valley and other places, the closest hospitals that accept children in psychiatric crises are hours away. Children can be stuck in emergency room hallways for days, waiting for a hospital bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes for a very traumatized experience for both families and children,” said Shannyn McDonald, the chief of the Stanislaus County behavioral health department’s children’s system of care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the county expanded its \u003cem>promotora\u003c/em> program, which enlists members of the Latino community to talk to their peers about mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the small town of Oakdale, a slim, energetic 51-year-old \u003cem>promotora\u003c/em> named Rossy Gomar spends 60 to 70 hours a week serving as cheerleader, educator and sounding board for many of the Latino women and children in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155382\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-155382\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/students-9-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Hilda Chavez, 17, at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. Chavez says students fear discussing mental health problems will earn them a label of “crazy.” \" width=\"400\" height=\"267\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hilda Chavez, 17, at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. Chavez says students fear discussing mental health problems will earn them a label of “crazy.” \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gomar’s office in the Oakdale Family Support Network Resource Center is cluttered with open boxes of diapers and donated children’s toys and clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at my office,” she laughs. “We don’t fit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomar says many of the women she works with don’t recognize that they are depressed or abused. Children see their parents’ problems and don’t know where to turn for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many young people who don’t have any hope,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But little by little, she has seen some good results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 17-year-old client is a student at Oakdale High School. The girl, whose name is being withheld to protect her privacy, said that earlier this year, problems at school and a break-up with her boyfriend had her struggling to get out of bed each morning. She began drinking, using drugs and thinking about suicide. She was scared to talk to her parents, she said, and kept everything inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, she walked into Gomar’s office and started crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me ‘Everything is ok. We want you here,’” the girl said. “When I was talking with her, I felt so much better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by \u003ca href=\"http://khn.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiser Health News\u003c/a>, an editorially independent program of the \u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/\" target=\"\">Kaiser Family Foundation\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Psychiatric hospitalizations of Latino children and young adults in California are rising dramatically — at a much faster pace than among their white and black peers, according to state data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While mental health hospitalizations of young people of all ethnicities have climbed in recent years, Latino rates stand out. Among those 21 and younger, they shot up 86 percent, to 17,813, between 2007 and 2014, according to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. That’s compared with a 21 percent increase among whites and 35 percent among African Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Everybody’s trying to hire Spanish-speaking clinicians. There’s just not enough to meet that demand.”\u003ccite>Leslie Preston, the behavioral health director of La Clínica de La Raza \u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No one knows for certain what’s driving the trend. Policymakers and Latino community leaders offer varying and sometimes contradictory explanations. Some say the numbers reflect a lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services for Latinos and a pervasive stigma that prevents many from seeking help before a crisis hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often, they wait until they are falling apart,” said Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, a professor at the University of California, Davis Medical School and director of the university’s Center for Reducing Health Disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others blame stress from the recent recession, family disintegration and an influx of traumatized children fleeing poverty and violence in Central America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still others suggest the trend might actually be positive, reflecting an increasing willingness among Latino parents to seek treatment for themselves and their children, at least when they are in crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Latino adults, psychiatric hospitalizations rose 38 percent during the same period. Similar hospitalizations of black adults increased 21 percent, while hospitalizations of white adults remained flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margarita Rocha, the executive director of the nonprofit Centro la Familia in Fresno, said mental health issues are starting to be discussed more publicly in the Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s helping people to come forward,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155389\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/nubia-flores-4-e1456857767311.jpg\" alt=\"Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, works part-time at Family Paths, a counseling and mental health organization in Oakland. Miranda said she became interested in a career in mental health after she started experiencing depression and anxiety her freshman year at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, works part-time at Family Paths, a counseling and mental health organization in Oakland. Miranda said she became interested in a career in mental health after she started experiencing depression and anxiety her freshman year at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ken Berrick, CEO of the Seneca Family of Agencies, which serves children with emotional disturbances in a dozen counties, agreed. Because more Latinos are now getting mental health services, children are more likely to be identified as requiring hospitalization, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know for a fact that access to service is better now,” said Berrick, whose operation has a crisis stabilization unit in Alameda County, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids’ psychiatric hospitalizations overall rose nearly 45 percent between 2007 and 2014, regardless of ethnicity, a pattern experts attribute to various factors including a shortage of intensive outpatient and in-home services, schools’ struggles to pay for mental health services through special education and a decline in group home placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kids have to be treated somewhere,” said Dawan Utecht, Fresno County’s mental health director, of the move to keep kids out of group homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t get those services in a community setting, they’re going to go into crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rise among Latino youths is remarkable in part because hospitalization rates for that population historically have been relatively low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latino children remain much less likely to receive mental health treatment through Medi-Cal, the state and federal coverage program for poor and disabled residents. Between 2010 and 2014, less than 4 percent of Latino children received specialty mental health services through the traditional Medi-Cal program. That’s compared with 7 percent of eligible black and white children, according to state data. The numbers don’t include those enrolled in managed care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155378\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 370px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155378\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/latino-kids-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, at her home in Oakland. After participating in the mental health program at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, Miranda decided to major in psychology at San Francisco State University. \" width=\"370\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, at her home in Oakland. After participating in the mental health program at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, Miranda decided to major in psychology at San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders seek treatment at a rate even lower than Latinos. Although hospitalizations are also increasing rapidly among that population, the raw numbers remain relatively small.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Preston, the behavioral health director of La Clínica de La Raza, in East Oakland, says that the shortage of bilingual, bicultural mental health workers limits Latino kids’ access to preventive care, which could lead to crises later on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s trying to hire the Spanish-speaking clinicians,” she said. “There’s just not enough clinicians to meet that demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Access to care can be even harder for recent immigrants. Spanish-speaking children who have been referred for a special education assessment, which can help them become eligible for mental health services, sometimes wait months or years before someone tests them, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The families don’t know the system,” she added. “They don’t know their rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other clinicians point to relatively low health insurance coverage among Latinos, particularly those without legal status, and a cultural resistance to acknowledging mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Alok Banga, medical director at Sierra Vista Hospital in Sacramento, said some immigrant parents he encounters don’t believe in mental illness and have not grasped the urgency of their children’s depression and past suicide attempts. Many are working two or three jobs, he said. Some are undocumented immigrants afraid of coming to the hospital or having any interaction with Child Protective Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest problem, from his perspective, is the shortage of child psychiatrists and outpatient services to serve this population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The default course for treatment falls on institutions: hospitals, jails and prisons,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Rackmil, director of the children’s system of care in Alameda County, said sheer population growth — particularly, an increase in Latino children insured under Medi-Cal — may also be part of the explanation for the rise in hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the state’s Latino population aged 24 and under increased less than 8 percent between 2007 and 2014, which doesn’t nearly explain an 86 percent increase in hospitalizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155384\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/students-4-e1456857496239.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Ochoa, 17, and Victor Ramirez, 17, work on an assignment during their behavioral health training at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Ochoa, 17, and Victor Ramirez, 17, work on an assignment during their behavioral health training at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some California communities are working to bring more Latino children into care and to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, a small, mostly Latino high school in East Oakland, students grow up amid pervasive violence and poverty. “We’re just told to hold things in,” said 17-year-old Hilda Chavez, a senior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students often don’t seek help because they fear discussing mental health problems will earn them a label of “crazy,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the school, in conjunction with the Oakland-based La Clínica de La Raza, started a program to interest students in careers in mental health care. The program provides training in “first aid” instruction to help people in crisis, and places students in internships with mental health organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nubia Flores Miranda, 18, participated in the program last year and now is majoring in psychology at San Francisco State University. Miranda said she became interested in a career in mental health after she experienced depression and anxiety during her freshman year at Life Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing a school counselor “changed my life around,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she saw that her peers were wary of seeking help from counselors at the school, most of whom were white and lived in wealthier, safer neighborhoods. Once, when a classmate started acting out at school, Miranda suggested she talk to someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She told me she didn’t feel like she could trust the person — they wouldn’t understand where she was coming from,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_155383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1921px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-155383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/03/students-8-e1456857368930.jpg\" alt=\"Graciela Perez, 17, and Nayely Espinoza, 17, hold up their group assignment during a class presentation at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. The students are preparing for their mental health internships. \" width=\"1921\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graciela Perez, 17, and Nayely Espinoza, 17, hold up their group assignment during a class presentation at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland. The students are preparing for their mental health internships. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The shortage of services is especially evident in the Central Valley, where many agricultural workers are Latino. Juan Garcia, an emeritus professor at California State University, Fresno, who founded a counseling center in the city, says the drought and economic downturn have exacerbated depression, anxiety, substance abuse and psychotic breaks among Latinos of all ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The services to this population lag decades behind where they should be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno County, psychiatric hospitalizations of Latino youth more than tripled, to 432, between 2007 and 2014. Hospitalizations of their white and black peers about doubled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liliana Quintero Robles, a marriage and family therapy intern in rural Kings County, also in the state’s Central Valley, said she sees children whose mental health issues go untreated for so long that they end up cutting themselves and abusing alcohol, marijuana, crystal meth and OxyContin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some really, really deep-rooted suffering,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out in the unincorporated agricultural community of Five Points, about 45 minutes from Fresno, almost all of the students at Westside Elementary School are low-income Latinos. When principal Baldo Hernandez started there in 1981, he’d see maybe one child a year with a mental health issue. These days, he sees 15 to 30, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames dry wells and barren fields, at least in part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had parents crying at school, begging me to find them a home, begging me to find them a job,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some parts of the Valley and other places, the closest hospitals that accept children in psychiatric crises are hours away. 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