How LA County’s new mental health director hopes to help heal troubled minds [SGVTribune.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/1/174:00 AM

For as long as people who lived in the neighborhood could remember, the bottom floor of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health’s headquarters was surrounded by a chain-link fence, closed off from their view.

Then a few months ago, something changed. The fence was pushed away. The space inside cleaned, painted and furnished. On May 1, the doors at Vermont Avenue and Sixth Street opened to the county’s first peer-resource center for people who need help finding peace of mind from those who understand them best.

For Dr. Jonathan Sherin, the new center in Koreatown symbolizes a shift in the way he plans to lead the largest mental health department in the nation.

[For more of this story, written by Susan Abram, go to http://www.sgvtribune.com/heal...-heal-troubled-minds]

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