California has been awarded nearly $15 million from the American Rescue Plan as part of a Biden administration push to expand mental health resources around the country. The funds will go towards upgrading the suicide prevention hotline from a regular 10-digit phone number to the simpler 988 dialing code.
For more, KCBS Radio news anchor Megan Goldsby spoke with Dr. David Spiegel, Director of the Center on Stress and Health and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.