By Dianne Anderson Awards are paying off for one local nonprofit in its quest to move women in crises, caught deep in the system, to a place that they now call home. Time for Change Foundation recently won a federal grant for $425,000 per year for the next five years, totaling $2.1 million that will ...

By Dianne Anderson Getting mental health services before it’s too late has been a personal calling for community outreach advocate Linda Hart, something that she has felt compelled to deal with starting within her own family. Everyone missed the first signs of distress, it went unnoticed as sometimes happens to people in crisis. The odd ...

By Dianne Anderson No one wants to think about child and youth suicide, but ignoring the problem doesn’t make it go away. Kids are starting early, considering taking their own lives or actually following through from as young as five years old, and Black kids are particularly not immune. At last count in ten years ...

A new mental health urgent care center has opened in Perris and its doors will remain open around the clock to offer voluntary mental health support to people in crisis. Riverside University Health System—Behavioral Health has engaged the Telecare Perris-Mental Health Urgent Program to provide the community-based mental health and recovery services. Steve Steinberg, director ...