Advocates Kingdom Family Resources is a community based Mental Health service that is dedicated to the education, healing, growth and preservation of all families. “Our vision is to restore a heart, restore a family and transform lives for a lifetime. In order for families to be strong and healthy -- each member need to be strong and healthy.”
Greetings from Kingdom Family Resources! As we look around our community and listen to the news about the events that are happening around the world, there is one thing that will continue to help us look forward into the future: HOPE. Have you ever had a situation or experience that left you wondering “how am I going to get through this”? So many families face difficulties daily, whether that be financial, marital, and/or children who are struggling with disabilities. Families go through divorce, have unexpected deaths, and generations that experience incarceration. Some young people are struggling with understanding their identity, and parents feel like they have lost their child to gangs and the streets. What is the one thing that will help you hold on? It is HOPE. What is the one thing that will motivate you to keep getting up in spite of what you are facing? It is HOPE. According to the dictionary, HOPE is “a feeling of a certain expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen”. I want to encourage you to not allow life and situations to diminish your hope for your family and your life. You and I were made to endure and take opportunity to make something good out of something tough. Psychiatrist and Neurologist Victor Frankle said that “the last of human freedoms - the ability to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances” In every situation you face, challenge your beliefs if they are opposite of HOPE. Don’t allow circumstance to cloud your ability to have HOPE. Kingdom Family Resources believes in empowering families to continue to HOPE; no matter what your family is facing. You may not always know how you will get through it, but, if you choose to, you will see HOPE in action – hold on to HOPE! Elizabeth J. Stewart, LMFT 96324 Kingdom Family Resources
Increasing Children’s Access to Mental Health Services To increase mental health funding for children, a proposal to allocate at least half of grant funding for triage services available under the Mental Health Wellness Act for youth 18 years and younger was introduced today by Senator Jim Beall, D-San Jose. “The majority of mental health and crisis intervention funding is targeted for adults but we should remember the needs of children are no less important,’’ said Beall, who serves as chairman of the Senate Mental Health Caucus. “It
is crucial to get children who are experiencing a mental health crisis quickly connected to treatment and counseling. “If the state can get kids the early help they need, it will defuse future problems and make their future brighter. Parity in funding is a simple step that does not cost the state more money but will benefit children for the rest of their lives – and that’s good for California.’’ Senate Bill 1019 targets an issue raised by the state Mental Health Services Accountability Commission, which
found that just 15 percent of the funding available through the first round of triage grants issued under the wellness act went to programs that served school-age children. Of the $32 million that was reserved for crisis triage programs, less than $5 million went to programs that served children. When compared with adults, children in California appear to have a greater need for mental health services. Approximately 1 in 20 adults suffers from a serious mental illness
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that makes it difficult to carry out major life activities. The rate among children is even higher: 1 in 13 suffers from a mental illness that limits participation in daily activities, according to findings by the California Health Care Foundation. SB 1019 also creates a competitive grant program to support partnerships between counties and local education agencies that include crisis
outreach services by Medi-Cal providers for students with behavioral and emotional needs. The Mental Health Wellness Act of 2013 was aimed at expanding the state’s ability to provide crisis intervention assistance, including as crisis stabilization, rehabilitative services, mobile crisis support teams, and triage personnel.