Dr. Areta Crowell was Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 1991-1998. She was born and raised in Canada and earned her Ph.D. in psychology at McGill University. After a few years teaching in New Jersey, she chose to go into mental health services research after moving to Los Angeles and joined […]
Susan Crimin is the Supervising Psychiatric Social Worker at Palmdale Mental Health Center in the Antelope Valley. Transcript
Makesha Jones-Chambers, Psy.D., is Program Head of the LACDMH Antelope Valley Mental Health Center in Lancaster. Transcript
Carla Jacobs is a veteran mental health activist who has helped shaped the dialogue surrounding mental health public policies in California. Motivated by family tragedies involving relatives suffering from schizophrenia, Ms. Jacobs began a personal crusade to change the treatment laws for people with severe mental illness. She is guided by a basic principle that […]
Dr. Ian Hunter graduated from Occidental College with a Psychology major and earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Oregon in 1966. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Hospital and at the Mt. Zion Psychiatric Hospital in San Francisco and also completed a clinical internship at the Suicide […]
Gene Gray is a Licensed Family Therapist at the LACDMH Antelope Valley Mental Health Center in Lancaster, California. Transcript
Erin Gilbert-Gorham is a community worker at Arcadia Mental Health and Wellness Centers. She works from lived experience to counsel and support clients with co-occurring disorders. Transcript
Martha Long, C.P.R.P., helped revolutionize the public mental health system in Los Angeles County with her work as the first Director of the Village in Long Beach. After beginning her career as a teacher, Long began working in mental health at The Social Center’s clubhouse program in Fairfax County, Virginia. She moved to California to […]
Eddie Lamon grew up in Oklahoma and Northern California. She became active in school and community affairs as a young mother living in South Central Los Angeles in the 1950s. When she realized the need for mental health services in the community, she became a vocal and determined advocate, serving first on the Regional Citizen’s […]
Rose King is a Sacramento-based political and policy consultant, and a family member of several individuals with serious mental illness. After entering politics in 1968 by joining a campaign to recall Governor Ronald Reagan, King has worked for some of California’s most prominent politicians, including Bill Lockyer, Leo McCarthy, and Nancy Pelosi. As McCarthy’s Chief […]