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The Mercury News: Santa Clara County unveils new residential mental health facility amid psychiatric bed shortage
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UPDATE: Top Santa Clara County leader lays out roadmap to community safety
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CA's largest urban farm community opens in Santa Clara
The recently completed project includes dozens of homes for seniors and a farm to help keep residents fed with nutritious produce.
Bridging digital divide helps get seniors online
Santa Clara County has partnered with five nonprofit groups and community organizations to offer seniors the opportunity to equip themselves with the hardware, the knowledge and the support to confidently access the internet and its wealth of services, all at no charge.
Santa Clara County’s Commission on the Status of Women still fighting for equality 50 years later
The advisory board has helped establish pay equity for the county workforce, among other initiatives.
Santa Clara County launches $15 million grant program to boost child care providers
The Child Care and Early Education Infrastructure Grant Program can help renovate, reopen, or expand existing operations.
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approves gender-affirming health-care resolution
The resolution, spearheaded by Susan Ellenberg, District 4 supervisor and board president, protects gender-affirming care, including medical, psychological, behavioral and social interventions that affirm and support those whose gender identities don’t coincide with the gender assigned at birth.
Supes fund school-based wellness centers in Santa Clara County
Board approves $12M grant to assist on-campus behavioral health services.
Santa Clara County gets state help to fund detox beds
The grant will enable the number of detox beds to increase from 16 to 30 and residential treatment beds from 56 to 72.
Santa Clara County to open mental health residential facility
This step-down program bridges the gap in a need for further stabilization following acute psychiatric care services at Valley Medical Center (VMC) and other county facilities.