Posts Tagged ‘therapy’
Young adults fill mental health services gap with peer mentoring
Organizations in Oakland empower Transitional Age Youth (TAY) to support each other, educate health care providers, and become community leaders.
Read MoreAnti-jail demonstrators seek “Care not Cages”
An unconventional anti-jail protest argued the mentally ill need “Care not Cages,” and provided roadside alternative health services.
Read MoreTherapist Isadora Alman wants doctors to ask patients: “Are you enjoying your sex life?”
“Are you enjoying your sex life?” That’s a question sex therapist Isadora Alman would like primary healthcare providers to ask their patients, along with other basic questions often asked of people coming in for a check-up, like inquiries about smoking or drinking. But this doesn’t happen, said Alman, who is also a California licensed marriage…
Read MoreToday’s Future Sound teaches kids coping skills … with a beat
Dr. Elliot Gann is standing in front of his beat-up and stickered black Mazda Protégé in the parking lot of West Oakland Middle School. In his left ear is a Bluetooth earpiece, which, as he eats a Trader Joes sandwich wrap, enables him to lament to a friend the parking ticket he just received. To…
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