Redwood City – San Mateo County Supervisors today agreed to provide Planned Parenthood Mar Monte with nearly $400,000 to ensure women have access to high-quality, local reproductive health care.
Redwood City – The County’s Department of Public Works (DPW) will celebrate National Public Works Week with a display of their rugged trucks and equipment this Wednesday, May 22, on the County Center campus.
Correctional Health Services and the Sheriff’s Office have installed a machine to dispense free doses of Narcan – the drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose – in the public lobby of the Maguire Correctional Facility in Redwood City. To reduce community harm and potentially save lives, the machine provides a box of Narcan containing two doses to anyone who needs it, including inmates who are being released, their families and friends and members of the public.
Redwood City – San Mateo County officials hailed the proposed decision issued Friday by a California Public Utilities Commission Administrative Law Judge to reject a proposal by AT&T that that judge says could threaten vulnerable residents during wildfires and other emergencies.
Redwood City – Did you know that thousands of San Mateo County residents could receive help putting nutritious food on the table but haven’t applied for assistance? To get the word out, County officials are expanding efforts to raise awareness and dispel myths about CalFresh, which helps low-income households increase their food-buying power to meet their household’s nutritional needs.
Redwood City – A campaign to build safe and affordable housing for coastal farmworkers got a nearly $6 million boost today. San Mateo County supervisors voted 5-0 to allocate $5,999,360 towards buying and installing 47 manufactured homes for farmworkers and their families, including 19 households displaced after the Jan. 23, 2023, mass shooting. The homes will be located on five acres about a mile from downtown Half Moon Bay just south of Highway 1.
Redwood City – San Mateo County supervisors today approved an ordinance to promote racial and social equity in delivering public services and within the organization.
Redwood City – San Mateo County is soliciting input and collaboration for implementation of California Senate Bill 43, which makes significant changes to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act – a law governing involuntary detention, treatment and conservatorship of people with behavioral health conditions.
Redwood City – As May 1 kicks off Mental Health Month, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (BHRS) invites residents to a series of free events and to learn about ways to cope with stress, anxiety, loneliness and more. The theme for 2024 May Mental Health Month is Heal Through Connection #SMCAgainstLoneliness.
The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office operates two correctional facilities – the Maguire Correctional Facility and the Maple Street Correctional Center. Over the past several years, the number of incarcerated persons with addiction and mental illness in the Office’s care has increased.
Redwood City – As home prices and rents have shot up – and homelessness is at “crisis” levels in California – federal support for local housing assistance and homelessness prevention is at a 30-year low.