The California Endowment Greater Bay Area Regional Office is moving from San Francisco to downtown Oakland, Calif., in order to better accomodate the needs of our grantees. The upcoming move will provide more conference room space for nonprofit, community-based organizations with a health-related mission or meeting agenda at no cost. And as The Endowment moves forward in its strategic vision for the next decade, having the capacity to offer additional meeting and convening space to grantees and partners to network, collaborate and learn from each other becomes a critical success factor.

Author Pete Earley visited the Center for Healthy Communities for a Center Scene public program on Aug. 19 to talk about his book Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness.The book details his family's struggles dealing with his own son's mental illness. Earley also discussed how America's mental health care and justice systems can be transformed. What follows are links to Earley's presentation as well other mental health resources.