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The Week Ahead: Mental health focus of virtual town hall session
FAIRFIELD Sen. Bill Dodd will host a virtual town hall Tuesday on mental health during the pandemic featuring a panel discussion with experts from Stanford University, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Napa-based Mentis.
The town hall will be streamed live over multiple channels and broadcast on KSVY Sonoma. Panelists will take live and submitted questions.
Panelists for the session hosted by Dodd, D-Napa, include Dr. Cerrene Cervantes, executive director of NAMI Solano County; Dr. Rona Hu, medical director of the Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Stanford Hospital; and Rob Weiss, executive director of Mentis.
In the eyes of proponents, reauthorizing the federal Violence Against Women Act should be a no-brainer.
Since it was implemented in 1994, the act has resulted in billions of dollars for tribal, state and local governments, as well as nonprofit organizations, working to help victims and prevent domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking throughout the United States. Nevertheless, hundreds of organizations that provide services such as emergency shelter, legal aid and mental health therapy keep straining to meet demand.
Through the act, Congress typically eases some of the financial strain by appropriating hundreds of millions of dollars â about $550 million annually â for the various programs, but expanding protections requires legislators to reauthorize VAWA.