The defendant appears before Judge Maria Lucy Armendariz with his public defender, Caroline Goodson in Dept. “I’m not going to repeat it because it’s not you.” The five defendants that day were graduates of the Rapid Diversion Program, an initiative in Los Angeles Criminal Court that is making a small dent in the disproportionate number of mentally ill offenders in …
Early in his first quarter at the University of California-Davis, Ryan Manriquez realized he needed help. Since then, "we've gone from 30 mental health counselors to 65," said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, the university's chief medical officer for student health. A study by the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Pennsylvania State University found that among 43,000 students who sought …
