Yadira Ramirez-Flores is one of the Spanish-speaking psychiatric social workers at Edelman Mental Health Center. Transcript

Mark Ragins grew up in Southern California.  He graduated from the California Institute of Technology and received his MD from Washington University in St. Louis.  After completing his residency in psychiatry at LA County-USC Hospital, he worked for several years in LAC-DMH public mental health clinics and at UCLA-Harbor General Hospital.  In 1990, he became […]

Roberto Quiroz was Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 1984-91.  He earned his MSW from Columbia University and worked in New York in family therapy and at the NASW headquarters. In 1972, he was appointed assistant director of a new community mental health center in Pueblo, Colorado, and subsequently served as […]

Andrew Posner learned about mental illness through his own struggles, moved himself out of a board-and-care home to live in the community, and worked at a series of jobs to pay for his own treatment.  He became Executive Director of BACUP, Benefits Assistance Clients Urban Projects in 1986.  This self-help group assists mental health clients […]