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Metta and his foundation, Xcel University, are donating a lunch with Metta and four people, for Pacific Clinics and Portals' El Cholo Fiesta Brunch fundraiser.  Pacific Clinics was the Los Angeles-based recipient of the money raised through Metta's raffle of his 2010 NBA Championship ring.  Click here to bid and for more detail.

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AirForce Times: Mental disorder hospitalizations up 19% in 2011

The number of active-duty troops hospitalized for mental disorders rose 19 percent in 2011, to 21,735, up from 18,250 in 2010, according to a Defense Department morbidity report released Monday.

Military Families Hit Pentagon On Response To PTSD And Suicide

Blue Star Families, an advocacy group for military family members, released a report Wednesday that says a high percentage of service members are avoiding treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder due to doubts about the military's support system. 

Benched Lakers star still on a mission

Billboards like this represent the continuing collaboration between Metta World Peace and Los Angeles County. 

Court reverses itself on veterans healthcare overhaul

A federal appeals court has reversed a ruling that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must overhaul how it cares for veterans with combat-related mental health care illnesses.

NAMI Launches "Mental Health Care Gets My Vote"

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched a website, "Mental Health Care Gets My Vote," to mobilize individuals and families affected by mental illness to participate in the 2012 elections.

Recognizing and Overcoming the Mental Health Effects of Being a Bullying Victim

As a society, we’ve become more aware of bullying as a devastating form of abuse that can have long-terms effects on victims, negatively impacting their self-esteem, isolating them from their peers and in more serious cases, leading to depression, anxiety, substance abuse and sometimes suicide.

Mental Health Month Raises Awareness of Trauma and Impact on Children, Families, Communities; New Approaches to Treatment

For May is Mental Health Month, Mental Health America is raising awareness of trauma, the devastating impact it has on physical, emotional, and mental well-being, and how therapeutic techniques based in neuroscience can mitigate these effects and create dramatic changes in people's lives.

Mental Health Care Without the High Bills

One in 5 American adults -- nearly 46 million -- experienced some form of mental illness in the past year, according to a recent study from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA.

Mike Wallace: His contribution to mental health

When someone intelligent, forthright, aggressive, and respected lends their face to a subject slightly taboo, it makes a difference.

VA Sees Shortfall of Mental Health Specialists

As thousands of additional veterans seek mental health care every month, the Department of Veterans Affairs is short of psychiatrists, with 20% vacancy rates in much of the country served by VA hospitals, according to department data.

The Therapist May See You Anytime, Anywhere

The very idea of psychotherapy seems to defy the instant-access, video screen chatter of popular digital culture.Not for long, if some scientists have their way. In the past few years researchers have been testing simple video-game-like programs aimed at relieving common problems like anxiety and depression.

Going Abroad to Understand the Mental Health of Latinos in US

For decades, mental health professionals have been trying to understand why Latinos in the United States, who suffer from mental health issues at a higher rate than whites, receive far fewer treatment for psychological services. Latinos are not getting mental help, and no one knew why.

Combat troop ailments drive medical backlog

Tens of thousands of combat troops who undergo routine health checks before returning home need treatment for ailments ranging from bad backs to mental illness, helping to drive a backlog of troops waiting for medical retirements, new Pentagon data show.

Majority of self-harming adolescents don't receive a mental health assessment in ERs

A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportion of these patients receive no outpatient mental health care in the following month.

California Assembly bills expand health coverage

The state Assembly on Thursday passed a set of bills intended to broaden the mental health and health care services covered by private insurance plans.

Grief Could Join List of Disorders

When does a broken heart become a diagnosis? In a bitter skirmish over the definition of depression, a new report contends that a proposed change to the diagnosis would characterize grieving as a disorder and greatly increase the number of people treated for it.

Officials oppose extended federal oversight of 2 mental hospitals.

California officials Monday filed documents in U.S. District Court opposing extended federal oversight of two state mental hospitals, arguing that new leaders have already taken measures to improve patient care and safety.

Army reports mixed picture on soldier mental health suicides decline, but violence climbing

The number of suicides among soldiers has been leveling off but there’s been a dramatic jump in domestic violence, sex crimes and other destructive behavior in a force that has been stressed by a decade of war, a new Army report said Thursday.

Government survey finds that 5 percent of Americans suffer from a ‘serious mental illness’

About 20 percent of American adults suffer some sort of mental illness each year, and about 5 percent experience a serious disorder that disrupts work, family or social life, according to a government report released Thursday.

UCLA joins forces with White House to meet unique needs of veterans, families

As part of a White House effort to ensure that America's military heroes receive care worthy of their service, the UCLA Health System and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have pledged to mobilize their uniquely integrated missions in education, research and clinical care to help train physicians to meet the special needs of veterans, active service members and their families.

Veteran charged with homeless murders: Hint of larger problem for US military?

The scheduled arraignment later this week of an Iraq veteran charged with killing four homeless men in southern California has shone a spotlight on the mental-health troubles facing Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans back home – and whether communities and government agencies are equipped to help.

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