The California Parent & Youth Helpline is advocating for additional state funding and has warned it may need to shut down due to the budget cuts.

Photo: Courtesy California Parent & Youth Helpline

 After providing support to their callers for years, several helplines in California are now facing their own hard times. They are no longer receiving the same amount of state funding they used to in years past to cover their operations, throwing the longevity of their services into question.   The California Parent & Youth Helpline, for example, had been counting on $3 million from the state’s Behavioral Health Services Fund that the Legislature had approved in the spring as part of its 2025 state budget proposal. Yet Governor Gavin Newsom removed the funding from the final budget that he sign

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