Carl C. McCraven trained as an engineer at Howard University and was working in the aerospace industry in Los Angeles when he became Chairman of the Board of the new Pacoima Memorial Hospital. The Community Mental Health Center was founded as part of the Hospital in 1966. He earned a master’s degree in Health Sciences […]
Roy Marshall is President and CEO of the San Fernando Valley Child and Family Guidance Center, a multisite mental health center which provides services to vulnerable and at-risk children and their families in the San Fernando and Antelope Valleys. Mr. Marshall grew up in Encino; his parents were members of the group that founded the […]
Ron Schraiber is a longtime consumer activist leader in California. He had his initial encounter with the mental health system as a graduate student at UC Irvine, followed by experiences in several different cities. He began reading Thomas Szasz’ work, which appealed to him, and founded a client group which he named CAPABLE – Citizens […]
Brook Sylvann, a theater, film and television actor and comedy host, leads the Improv Comedy Group at Edelman Mental Health Center. Transcript
Darrell Steinberg has been the President pro Tempore of the California State Senate since 2008. Steinberg worked as an employee rights attorney for the California State Employees Association, an Administrative Law Judget, and a mediator before beginning his career in public service by serving on the Sacramento City Council from 1992 to 1998. Steinberg served […]
Marvin Southard earned his MSW at UC Berkeley and his DSW at UCLA. He served as Director of Clinical Services at El Centro Human Services Corporation in East LA for seven years and as Director of Mental Health in Kern County for five years, prior to being appointed Director of the Los Angeles County Department […]
Victoria Sofro grew up in Northern California and attended USC School of Social Work, where she was certified in psychosocial rehab counseling. She had her first exposure to people with mental illness in her early twenties through taking care of a family member. She later worked as an art therapist for a group called the […]
Stephen Mayberg, PhD, retired as Director of the California Department of Mental Health in December 2010, after serving in this capacity for more than 17 years. During his tenure, he embarked on an ambitious agenda that included major initiatives to reform the mental health system. These reforms reflected changes based on programmatic research, and program […]
Gloria Sheppard is Mental Health Clinical Program Head at the American Indian Counseling Center in Cerritos, California. Transcript
Jerry Wengerd first worked in a psychiatric hospital as a conscientious objector and found his true calling there. He earned his master’s degree summa cum laude from California State University Fresno in 1975. Wengerd served as Director of Mental Health in Mariposa County (1980-88) and in Fresno County (1988-2005), where he was also Director of […]