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In the Name of ‘Modernization,’ Newsom Admin. Wants to Disappear Unhoused and Disabled People From the Streets

Mad in America

The law empowers family members, social service providers, police, and first responders to refer primarily unhoused people diagnosed with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses to a regime of civil courts that would compel them to accept a ‘care plan’ handed down by a judge. .”’

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University of Bern to Launch Global Mental Health Research Center in Collaboration with WPA

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Looking Forward to the Opening Ceremony The official opening of the University of Bern Competence Center of Global Mental Health Research took place on Friday, the 20th of September 2024, in Bern. Other collaborators include the Swiss Brain Health Initiative and the University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Bern (UPD).