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Affiliated with NAMI California and NAMI USA NAMI SGV website: http//namisangabrielvalley.org
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T h e J o u r n a l
NAMI is a grassroots organization serving those impacted by mental illness.
We are guided by our belief in the reality of recovery. We reach out, educate, and advocate.
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Volume 33, Number 3 April 2018
Distinguished Speaker Meeting Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Location: Wilson Auditorium 2471 E. Walnut Street Pasadena
Time: 7 PM Business Meeting 7:30—8:30 PM Speaker
Speaker: Ilona Salmons, LMFT
Subject: Normal Stress Response or Burnout? Symptoms of Caregiver Stress and Self-Care Strategies
In April NAMISGV welcomes Ilona Salmons, a licensed Los Angeles-based psychotherapist who enjoys helping her clients manage stress and lead balanced, effective and fulfilling lives. Salmons obtained a B.A. in Psychology from UCLA and an M.A. in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis on Marriage and Family Therapy, from Pepperdine University.
Stress may have a bad reputation, but not all stress is bad. In fact, acute stress is a healthy response in our body that can protect us from danger or even help us perform better on an important task! However, while our bodies are equipped to handle short-term stress, prolonged or chronic stress can take a toll on physical and emotional well being, and lead to burnout. The presentation will explore the difference between acute and chronic stress, as well as identify the risk factors and symptoms of burnout. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of practical tips and self-care strategies to manage stress, with special consideration for caregivers. Participants will be able to identify three self-care strategies that meet their lifestyle needs.
Remember—You Are Not Alone Support Groups Offered by NAMI SGV:
Peer to Peer April 2nd—June 4th 1:30—3:30 PM Every Monday for 10 weeks
Peer to Peer classes include the causes and science behind the various mental health conditions, exercises for recovery, relapse prevention, a chance to share one's story and more. To sign up contact Jackie at [email protected] or 626.577.6697
Aurora Las Encinas Hospital 2900 E. Del Mar Boulevard Pasadena
Connection Support Meetings
April 2nd—June 4th
4:00—5:30 PM
First and Third Mondays of each month
Aurora Las Encinas Hospital
2900 E. Del Mar Boulevard
Pasadena
Family Support Group
Every Thursday 5:30—7:30 PM
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Frontline For information: 818.478.5740 or
NAMI San Gabriel Valley -2- April 2018
NAMI San Gabriel
Valley 2018 Board of
Directors
President
Wayne Meseberg
Treasurer
Evelyne Glaser
VP Development
& Fundraising
Simone Porcu
VP Community
Liaison & Safety
Nancy Eng
VP Peer Education &
Support
Jackie Labrie-Pulido
VP Multicultural
Outreach
Emily Wu Truong
Recording Secretary
Diane Sipieter
NAMI SGV is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Dues and donations are
tax-deductible. Dues payable annually. Effective July 1, 2017
Household Membership: $60
Individual $40 Open Door: $5
Membership includes newsletter subscription. For more information contact 626.577.6697.
President’s Message
Wayne Meseberg
Over the past year, all twelve NAMI LA County affiliates participated in an exercise to explore the pros and cons of merging into one unified NAMI LA County affiliate. On Wednesday evening, March 14, 2018, the NAMI San Gabriel Valley general membership met at Wilson Auditorium for a presentation on the proposed consolidation/affiliation.
A robust Q&A session followed, and then the general membership voted. The ballot read as follows:
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That NAMI San Gabriel Valley Board of Directors enters into MOU (MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING) negotiations with NAMI LA County.
Should the Board of Directors approve the terms and conditions of the MOU, NAMI SGV agrees to transfer all assets, operations, and good will to NAMI LA County.
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In order to vote, members attending the meeting were required to be current in their SGV membership dues. Those who were not current were afforded the opportunity to pay dues up to the time of the vote. Absentee votes were also accepted starting three days prior to the general membership vote. All ballot votes have been verified for current payment of membership dues. As of March 14, 2018, NAMI SGV had 235 members, and with a quorum defined as 10 percent of members according to NAMI SGV by-laws, 24 votes were needed to constitute a quorum. A total of 37 members voted, with the results being 31 for APPROVE, 4 voting NO, and 2 abstentions. One additional ballot did not count because dues had expired.
So what is next? The SGV Board of Directors will now enter into Memorandum of Understanding negotiations with NAMI LA County. This process may take several months. Most of the proposed tenets for the MOU have been defined, yet some are still TBD. If negotiations between the SGV Board of Directors and NAMI LA County results in the SGV Board approving the terms and conditions of the MOU, then NAMI SGV, represented by our NAMI SGV Board of Directors, will agree to transfer all assets, operations, and good will to NAMI LA County. NAMI SGV will then become one of several chapters within the NAMI Los Angeles county-wide affiliate.
So what does this mean for us? We will maintain our identity as the NAMI SGV Chapter of NAMI LAC. We will still have a chapter budget, and our current funds and reserves as well as future funds from NAMI Walks and chapter fundraisers and donations to NAMI SGV will be restricted funds for use solely by our chapter. We will likely be able to continue our “home-grown” programs such as Quality of Life and Front Line, and also be free to develop additional local programs and activities.
If our Board of Directors does not reach an agreement for a Memorandum of Understanding to join the county-wide NAMI affiliate, then we will have to re-affiliate with NAMI National on our own. Furthermore, even if we do join the county-wide NAMI affiliate, there will be an exit clause in our agreement with NAMI LAC which will allow us to separate and go back to being a separate affiliate, in which case, we would likewise be required to re-affiliate with NAMI National. Re-affiliation is not an easy process.
This an exciting time for NAMI San Gabriel Valley. Affiliation has the potential to provide new county-wide funding and marketing campaign opportunities, to provide for outreach and expansion to under-served and non-served areas, and to maintain and expand cultural diversity.
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NAMI San Gabriel Valley 2018 Presidential Appointees VP, Family Education Heba Turner
Chair, Advocacy Ellie Stabeck
The Journal Jeri Gaudino
Co-Chairs, Front Line Lucienne Marie Lynne Garcia
Chair, Distinguished Speaker Series Patricia O’Neill, PhD
Chair, Family Support Dennis Thompson
Chair, Quality of Life Katherine Ellis
Co-Chairs, Membership Liza Parenti Ellie Oliva
Chair, Warm Line Lucienne Marie
Chair, Peer Education & Support Felicia Mollinedo
Corresponding Secretary Lorraine Carson
Molecular Secrets Revealed: Antipsychotic Docked in its Receptor Discovery may lead to safer, more targeted drugs Excerpted from January 29, 2018 • Press Release The National Institute of Mental Health
Submitted by Patricia O'Neill, PhD
Antipsychotic drugs – which transformed mental health care following their chance
discovery in the mid-20th Century – may finally be poised for a long-overdue
makeover incorporating structure-based design. Scientists funded by the National
Institutes of Health have achieved a landmark of psychiatric neuropharmacology:
deciphering the molecular structure of [risperidone] a widely prescribed
antipsychotic docked in its key receptor. They are hopeful that this discovery may
hold secrets to designing better treatments for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and
other mental illnesses.
Researchers Bryan Roth, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina (UNC)
Chapel Hill, Brian Shoichet, Ph.D., of the University of California San Francisco,
and colleagues, report on their discovery of the crystal structure of the antipsychotic
risperidone docked in the D2 dopamine receptor in the journal Nature.
Before becoming a laboratory scientist, psychiatrist Roth experienced first-hand the
limitations of existing antipsychotics while treating patients with schizophrenia.
The medications excel at quelling hallucinations and delusions, yet largely fail to
address schizophrenia’s debilitating cognitive and social impairments, while
increasing risk for movement disorders, weight gain, and other metabolic and
cardiovascular side effects.
Many of these side effects result from existing antipsychotics’ interaction with
several other types of receptors in addition to the D2 receptor. Consequently, an in-
depth understanding of the molecular workings holds hope for designing agents
with just the desired properties that would act more precisely. For example, Roth
and colleagues in 2016 reported developing such a designer pain-reliever that works
via a key opioid receptor, but in a way that avoids morphine’s side effects. Earlier
this month, they similarly revealed a designer opioid compound that selectively acts
through a different opioid receptor, that has a more benign side-effect profile.
The new molecular pictures show that risperidone binds to the D2 receptor in an
unexpected way that could not be predicted based on previous structures of similar
dopamine receptors. Notably, the D2 receptor harbors an unexpectedly deep
“pocket” that the researchers think could be targeted to design more selective drugs
with fewer side effects.
Reference:
Structure of the D2 dopamine receptor bound to the atypical antipsychotic drug risperidone. Wang S, Che T, Levit A, Shoichet BK, Wacker D, Roth BL. Nature. 2018 Jan 24, 10.1038/nature25758.
NAMI San Gabriel Valley -4- April 2018
How Society Betrayed the Mentally Ill By the LA Times Editorial Board February 28, 2018 Submitted by Marita Pinkel
Les Jones, 62, has lived in supportive housing at Step-Up on Second for 11 years. If only we could make Les Jones’ story more commonplace.
As the 62-year-old Texas native leans back from his desktop computer in his small apartment, he details his journey from a successful radio career to a mental breakdown, to the streets, to shelter and finally to treatment and a healthy, happy life in this tidy complex at perhaps the most enviable corner of Santa Monica, steps from the Third Street Promenade, a short walk to the beach.
“I am one verse,” Jones says of the composition of the American population of the mentally ill. “There are others. Modern treatment of mental illness produces miracles. It literally saved my life.”
Jones lives at Step-Up on Second, the name of the apartment building and the nonprofit organization that operates it. He is serving his second stint on Step-Up’s board of directors, runs a computer-training program and helps other residents adjust to their new home. He has lived here 11 years.
This is permanent supportive housing. This is the type of thing Los Angeles voters are helping to build through their ballot measures and tax dollars. Jones and his neighbors each have their own apartments and lock their own doors. They visit on-site counselors and clinical staff as needed and discuss their progress, their lives, their medication. Many leave each morning for jobs.
Their lives are the promising future that policymakers and mental health professionals envisioned beginning in the 1950s, when a drug that was first developed as a sedative for surgical patients began being prescribed in psychiatric institutions and completely changed the nation’s approach to mental health. It was marketed under the name Thorazine.
It was the age of medical miracles: antibiotics like penicillin, and vaccines and treatments that virtually eliminated polio, smallpox and diphtheria. Drugs could cure almost anything. Surely they could cure mental illness.
That post-war spirit of can-do optimism contrasted with the barbaric mental health treatment of the time. In state hospitals and asylums, staff had responded to behavioral problems with tranquilizers or, in far too many cases, abuse that verged on torture. Patients were often force-fed and treated like prisoners, which in essence they were. That was to change.
The last bill that President Kennedy signed before his assassination in 1963 was the Community Mental Health Act — a landmark law to fund and build community mental health centers. The old-style state hospitals and asylums would close and patients would come home to be treated in outpatient clinics, in supportive-housing communities, or in local inpatient hospitals. In 1967, California adopted the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, which strictly limited forced hospitalization and the involuntary medication of patients.
This was deinstitutionalization, and the word had positive connotations. Civil libertarians supported patients recovering their self-determination. Others applauded the cost savings that came from treating people in outpatient settings. The mental health establishment — much of it anyway — expected better psychiatric outcomes and an end to abusive conditions.
So what happened? Why do so many people with mental health challenges end up on the street instead of community clinics? Why are there so few success stories like Les Jones, too few places like Step-Up on Second and far too many people in Los Angeles and around the nation today who turn to street drugs like heroin instead of prescribed medication to quiet the voices in their heads, or to methamphetamine to try to ease their depression?
First, it’s important to remember that the mentally ill account for only about a third of the homeless, so even if they were all properly treated and housed, homelessness would remain a monumental problem in Los Angeles.
That said, people who should be in permanent supportive housing and clinical care are on the street in large part because a society that did so well at the easy and money-saving part of deinstitutionalization — releasing the patients, laying off the staffs, closing the hospital doors — failed to follow through with the difficult and expensive part. Few of the promised clinics were built. The funding was constantly delayed. It was finally supposed to come with the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, signed into law by President Carter. But the following year, Congress and the new president, Ronald Reagan, repealed the act.
Meanwhile, medication was not the quick and easy solution that it had been made out to be. Thorazine had serious side effects. It was replaced by a variety of other drugs, many of which do work wonders — as is the case with Jones, who says his treatment keeps his schizo-affective disorder under control. But many patients complain they are no longer themselves when medicated.
With a dearth of clinics and supportive housing and little public appetite to pay for them, cities, counties and states have had to scramble for their own solutions.
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Many defer to nonprofit shelters, which offer meals, drug counseling, medical referrals and job training. It’s the right answer for some. Jones began his journey to recovery at such a shelter. But others battling illness or substance abuse are deterred by the strict rules of conduct or by the bans on personal belongings or pets. Bureaucratic mazes that would deter even the most emotionally fit keep mentally ill homeless people from seeking help.
Jones was lucky enough to have a place to go. If everyone on the streets could look forward to the same positive outcome, it might be easier to open more places like Step-Up on Second. But many nervous would-be neighbors fear that most mentally ill homeless are unlike Jones and could never integrate safely into a community setting.
Some mental health professionals and elected officials believe the answer is to roll back laws that limit the ability to forcibly commit people who can’t or won’t seek help on their own. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors recently called for just such a change, presumably to deal with people whose conditions are too serious for permanent supportive housing. There are now bills in Sacramento to amend the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act’s protections against compelled treatment.
In 2001, The Times editorial board published a series arguing that it was indeed worth sacrificing some civil liberties in order to treat people, rather than permit them to die on the street. But the issue isn’t all that simple. Today, The Times cautiously supports re-examining existing laws on compelled treatment, as long as Californians do not mislead themselves into believing that it is an acceptable, effective or lasting shortcut for getting a majority of people with mental health challenges off the street. For all but the most seriously ill, the better answer is a painstaking process of trust-building. Otherwise, sick people who are run through a ponderous and liberty-depriving process will just drift back to the street. For many, successful treatment requires housing first, so that patients can drop their perpetual guard against assaults on both their personal safety and their self-determination.
Besides, forcibly committed people would still need a place to be housed and treated, and we are still without the clinics and other facilities that were supposed to come with deinstitutionalization. By default, and to our collective shame, much of the response has been a virtual reinstitutionalization — but this time, to jail.
The largest psychiatric institutions in the United States are the Los Angeles County jails, the Cook County Jail in Chicago and Rikers Island in New York. L.A. County incarcerates thousands of mentally ill people. The Sheriff’s Department reports that more than 70% of
BETRAYED Continued from page 4) inmates who enter jail report a serious illness, either mental or physical. The county is moving forward with a $2-billion-plus plan to replace the aging Men’s Central Jail with a new facility specifically geared toward mental health treatment — but still a jail. We’re back where we started, but this time even more literally than before: Mentally ill people are prisoners.
It’s not that jailers want the new business. It’s a population, L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell recently told ABC7, “that I would argue should not be treated in a jail facility.”
Making jails the centerpiece of mental health treatment is a monumental betrayal not just of the mentally ill, but of the forward-looking thinkers of the 1950s and ’60s who saw a path toward a more humane and civilized society. And it is inefficient as well; treatment in jail costs more than treatment in clinics.
Los Angeles County government recently reorganized itself to recognize and respond to mental illness, addiction, criminal justice and homelessness in an integrated fashion. Now voters have approved a housing bond and raised their sales taxes to address homelessness.
It is perhaps a thin wafer of a down payment on the long-promised funding for community mental health treatment. But the money is just the first step. Few people enthusiastically welcome permanent supportive housing to the neighborhood. Fewer still accept mental health day clinics.
So the misery on the street grows, even though, for many people, places like Step-Up on Second would be a godsend. Jones tried to explain that recently when going door-to-door to calm the fears of neighbors to a soon-to-be-built Step Up project.
More than one door was slammed in his face.
This is the fourth in a series.
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psychologists and other therapists can provide as
much support as possible in a holistic manner. Dr.
O’Neill’s suggestion? Talk to them. Don’t just ask
them questions; make it a conversation. Remember,
we need to always approach these people with a
person-first mentality, and keep in mind that the
diagnosis does not define the person.
To wrap it up, Dr. O’Neill brought up a few
important points that are worth remembering.
Finding a therapist with whom you can connect is
very important. There are many, many therapists
out there that can provide you the support you
need, but you may need to interview a few to find
the right one. (Dr. O'Neill will return in June for a
workshop on how to interview and select a
provider.)
Environmental factors can be a trigger, or they
can be a support. Stress, in many ways, can be
detrimental or it can be supportive; the right
amount can give you the just-right challenge to
overcome your obstacles, but any more than that
may trigger symptoms.
Substance-induced psychosis is when symptoms
disappear when no longer using substances,
whereas symptoms will persist in people with
schizophrenia despite the discontinuance of
substance use.
Medication works for about two-thirds of those
who take it; the other third get minimal or no
relief. There is a current shift toward alternative
treatment such as herbal remedies and
meditation.
Thank you to Dr. O’Neill for providing information
about this important topic with such details!
Review February 14, 2018, Guest Speaker
Patricia O’Neill, PhD Review by Eddie Chu, MA, OTS In February, we had the pleasure of having our very
own chair of the Distinguished Speaker Program, Dr.
Patricia O’Neill, present. A clinical psychologist, Dr.
O’Neill brought forth many topics related to
psychosis and mental health issues, as well as
answers to questions surrounding these topics.
What, then, ensues when psychotic symptoms begin
to take over? The illness itself is only one part of the
big picture. Three other areas need to be addressed.
The four elements of psychotic symptoms are the
human condition, individual personality, past history
and current environment and the illness. Taking this
into consideration, it is crucial that people suffering
from psychosis receive the support and care that
considers all quadrants, rather than focusing solely on
illness.
From the perspective of the individual, it can be
understandable why they seek external substances to
reduce symptoms and distress. When not receiving
crucial well-rounded support, they are forced to seek
support elsewhere. Unfortunately, the necessary
amount of a substance for temporary relief begins to
increase over time, and the symptoms are no longer
subdued, but rather may become exponentially worse.
Imagine years of this cycle – how difficult would it be
to stop when feeling that this is the only way to
manage ongoing symptoms? It is no wonder that
addiction is such a high probability.
Dr. O'Neill stressed measurement of therapeutic
success must be subjective. Quality of life, as defined
by the person living with symptoms, provides the
best measure of treatment success. She believes cure
is possible, as defined by being symptom free without
need for medication, and cited the 85% cure rate in
schizophrenia as reported in Scandinavia by
proponents of the Open Dialogue approach.
Of course, having a full psychiatric evaluation can be
very useful in situations like this, providing different
angles with various information so that clinicians,
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Education Coordinator Announcements
The following trainings are coming up. If you would like to be trained to teach or present any of these programs, contact the organizer listed below.
April 15 & 16-Familia a Familia teacher training in Spanish-contact Rick at [email protected]
April 21-CIT presenter training-contact Sylvia at [email protected]
April 21—Ending the Silence-parents and peer presenter training—contact Brittney at [email protected]
May 19 & 20—In Our Own Voice peer presenters—contact Sally at [email protected]
May 26 & 27—Basics teacher training-contact Carolyn at [email protected]
June 23 & 24—Familia a Familia teacher training in Spanish—contact Al at [email protected]
NAMI in the Lobby training date to be determined. Do you have a few free hours a month to provide NAMI information and resources at local mental health facilities?
NAMI in the Lobby provides volunteers to help families and peers in the waiting areas of local clinics and hospitals. Contact Sylvia at [email protected] for more information and to sign up on the wait list for orientation training.
Registration is open for these upcoming education classes:
Family to Family beginning Apr il 3rd
Basics beginning May 5th
Summer Family to Family beginning July 2nd
Spanish Familia a Familia beginning September 8th
Contact Sylvia at [email protected] for an application and if you have any questions.
Emma Stone On Anxiety & Panic Attacks Esperanza Magazine The role that won Emma Stone an Academy Award for Best Actress has uncanny parallels to her own life. Mia, her character in the hit picture LaLa Land, suffers through a series of discouraging and even humiliating auditions. Stone started doing that very same thing in Hollywood at age 15, despite anxiety that troubled her even in primary school.
Acting was one of the tools Stone used to cope with panic attacks and generalized worry. “My brain naturally zooming 30 steps ahead to the worst-case scenario,” she told Rolling Stone magazine in a December 2016 cover story.
She especially liked improvisational theatre, or improv, because it requires full attention in the moment, “and that’s the antithesis of anxiety”. Talk therapy made a huge difference, too, along with imagining her anxiety as a little green monster that would grow if she listened to it but fade away if she didn’t pay attention.
Stone’s separation anxiety was so severe at one point that she stopped going to friends’ homes. Yet by her teens she was moving to Los Angeles with her mother and surviving her own disastrous auditions. After several years of unrelenting rejection, she started to pick up acting work—eventually nabbing major roles in major films like Easy A, The Help, the last set of Spiderman reboots, and Best Picture Oscar winner Birdman.
By all reports, in real life she’s unpretentious, self-deprecating, and quick to joke. In a video she recorded for the Child Mind Institute, she laughs at herself for her somewhat ironic wording in this advice: “What I would tell kids who are going through anxiety is, ‘You’re so normal, it’s crazy’ ”.
She goes on to celebrate the deep sensitivity and tendency to reflection that goes along with anxiety, and reinforces that it gets easier once you have coping tools and more self-knowledge about your triggers and what makes you feel safe.
A recent story in the Daily Mail, a British newspaper, stresses the same positive message. Stone notes that her anxiety still flares up and at those times it can feel like it’s never going to end. Knowing how to manage it has enabled her to live a “vibrant life. … It’s so nice to know in those moments of real intensity that it will shift and it will change and there’s a lot I can do to help myself.”
NAMI San Gabriel Valley -8- April 2018
RESOURCE INFORMATION (April 2018)
L A County DMH Arcadia Mental Health Center
626.254.1400 Monday-Friday, 8 AM-5 PM.
DMH Psychiatric Mobile Response Team (PMRT):
626.258.2004 for crisis management in Service Area 3
Monday-Friday 8 AM—5 PM. For PMRT at other times use
Access Line listed below.
DMH 24-hr Access Line: 800.854.7771, for information &
consultation, and for Psychiatric Mobile Response Team after
hours and week ends. LACO Sheriff/DMH Mental
Evaluation Team (MET). operates 5 PM to 1 AM. Call Local
Sheriff Station (or 911 if dire emergency) to request MET
response. For general information: 626.258.3002.
LACO DMH Family Advocate: 213.738.3948.
LACO DMH Family Engagement and Adult Services:
213.738.2868.
DMH Court program (Diversion): 626.403.4370.
Mental Health Justice programs: Ira Lesser, MD, Chair of
Psychiatry at Harbor UCLA 310.222.3101.
DMH Jail Mental Health Services: Dr. Kidwell, Mental
Health Clinical District Chief, 213.974.9083.
DMH Clerical Office, 213.473.1734. Give booking number
for inmate information.
Twin Towers Jail Inmate Reception Center: phone 213. 893.5385, fax 213.229.9991.
Patient Information Center: 213 473.6080 or 213.473.6100 or on website www.lasd.org; click on “inmate information center” then enter name or booking number.
Jail Inpatient Unit: Neil Ortego, MD 213.893.5391.
Men’s Outpatient Unit: Sara Hough, Psy.D., Program Head 213.473.1752.
Women’s Outpatient Unit: Mary Whaley, LCSW, Program Head 323.568.4578.
Friends Outside Los Angeles County, Mary Weaver, Executive Director 626.795.7607 ext. 104.
Suicide Prevention Center Crisis Line 24 hrs. 7 days 310.391.1253. Trained Counselors. No Fee.
New information as of 11/17/16: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has a new jail mental health liaison. You can reach Sergeant Shawn Barnes or his staff at 213. 974.1081 or [email protected].
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