Dr. J. R. Elpers was Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 1978-84. He received his medical degree from Indiana University and completed his residency in psychiatry at Columbia-Presbyterian in New York. After working as Deputy Director of Mental Health in Orange County, he was appointed Director of the Los Angeles County […]
Wendy Douglas, LCSW, is a social worker at Edelman Mental Health Center in West Los Angeles. 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
Gaines Lyons was born in Little Rock and grew up in Cleveland. He served in the Navy for four years, studying Chinese-Mandarin and spending time in Japan and the Philippines. After returning to the U.S., he graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in Japanese Language and Literature. He later worked for […]
Charlotte Lujan is a social worker of Native American heritage at the American Indian Counseling Center in Cerritos, CA. 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 […]