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September is National Recovery Month, and hundreds of San Diegans will be increasing awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders while celebrating people in recovery and those who support them at an event at the Waterfront Park downtown. The county Health and Human Services Agency will host Recovery Happens, a free, family-friendly event, Saturday, Sept. 14, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway. It is free and open...
Typically, there are five ways minors get alcohol, and they’re all illegal. With school being out and summer getting into full swing, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency and the Sheriff’s Department are urging parents to monitor their children’s activities to prevent underage drinking and reminding adults that it’s against the law to provide alcohol – and marijuana – to minors. Minors are not allowed to purchase, possess or consume alcohol. Giving alcohol to a minor can lead to criminal penalties o...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted June 25, to increase access to behavioral health services in North County with plans for additional investments across the region. The vote allowed the county Health and Human Services Agency to increase an existing contract with Palomar Health to enhance hospital-based, crisis stabilization services. It also directed county staff to explore the feasibility of investing in additional inpatient psychiatric care facilities in North County hospital districts. “Today, the board i...
The number of lab-confirmed flu cases went down again last week, and three additional influenza deaths were reported, the County Health and Human Services Agency announced. A total of 508 influenza cases were reported last week, compared to the 574 the week before. Also, three more San Diegans died from complications from the flu, bringing this season’s total to 49. In comparison, 307 San Diegans had died at the same time last year. The three people who died were an 84-year-old man from San Diego, a 62-year-old woman from S...
Even though fewer flu cases are being reported this season compared to last, the County Health and Human Services Agency is reminding San Diegans to get vaccinated to avoid getting sick. A total of 189 lab-confirmed flu cases have been reported this season, less than half the 441 cases that had been reported at the same time last year. "While fewer people have been sick with the flu this year, we never know how severe a season is really going to be," said Wilma Wooten, M.D., M...
A $150,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety will fund child car seats for low-income families, as well as child passenger safety education and training programs aimed at helping parents and caretakers make sure their child is riding safely. The grant covers the 2019 federal fiscal year, which is Oct. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30, 2019. “Children are our future and it is important that parents and caretakers keep children safe by using the right car seat, and installing it correctly,” OTS Director Rhonda Craft sai...
At an hourslong conference on caring for people in psychiatric crisis, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors got an assessment of the current behavioral health system and actions underway to address current and potential future gaps in emergency and inpatient psychiatric resources in the region. Behavioral health experts, elected and law enforcement officials and other stakeholders gave presentations and spoke to the board which, at the request of Chairwoman Kristin Gaspar, scheduled the conference after the recent...
The county Board of Supervisors voted Oct. 9 to allow the Health and Human Services Agency to apply for state emergency funds to address homelessness in the region. The California 2018-2019 State Budget includes $53 million for the California Emergency Solutions and Housing Program, which provides grants to local communities to develop programs that assist people who are homeless or at risk of not having a stable place to live. Funds from this program will be distributed in two rounds, potentially bringing San Diego County...
Cases and rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in San Diego County continued to rise for the third consecutive year in 2017 and were at the highest level in the last two decades, new data from the County Health and Human Services Agency revealed. Cases of infectious syphilis increased by 15.2 percent, from 981 cases in 2016 to 1,130 cases in 2017. Last year, the overall rate of early syphilis was 34.1 cases per 100,000 persons, a 14.4 percent increase from 2016. The rate among men was 22.4 times the rate among women,...
The total of local lab-confirmed influenza cases in San Diego County is outpacing the numbers reported at this time last year, the County Health and Human Services Agency recently announced. Through Dec. 10, a total of 291 cases of influenza had been reported in the county, 113 more than at the same time last season, when 178 had been reported. That is why County health officials are encouraging all San Diegans to get vaccinated before the worst of the flu season gets here....
County of San Diego Communications Office SAN DIEGO – The number of unvaccinated kindergartners in California has dropped two years in a row, and health officials hope to see it keep falling this upcoming school year as a result of a new state law that went into effect in July. Senate Bill 277 eliminated personal belief exemptions and requires that all students show proof of having received all the required vaccines before they are allowed in school. The new law exempts s...