{"id":710530,"date":"2026-04-07T07:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/710530\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:37:13","slug":"2-csu-campuses-receive-77m-to-support-mental-health-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/710530\/","title":{"rendered":"2 CSU Campuses Receive $77M to Support Mental Health in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ballmergroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ballmer Group<\/a> has donated $77 million to two California State University campuses to improve mental health services in the Los Angeles area. <\/p>\n<p>The investment company, which makes grants to boost economic mobility for children and families, awarded <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.calstatela.edu\/2026\/04\/06\/cal-state-la-receives-48-million-ballmer-group-grant-to-expand-youth-mental-health-services-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\">$48 million to Cal State LA<\/a> to train more than 1,000 new counselors and social workers to help alleviate the region&#8217;s youth mental health crisis, particularly in East L.A. In addition, the firm donated <a href=\"https:\/\/news.csudh.edu\/2026-bg-grant\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=2026-bg-grant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$29 million to California State University, Dominguez Hills<\/a>, to educate hundreds of new mental health professionals to serve children and families in South L.A. <\/p>\n<p>The gift to Cal State LA marks the largest in the institution\u2019s history and the sixth largest in CSU history. It will double the capacity of the university\u2019s one-year master of social work and school-based family counseling programs and increase head count in the two-year M.S.W. program by 50\u00a0percent. The bulk of the funding will support student scholarships.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy growing our extraordinary M.S.W. and SBFC programs, we will prepare more graduates who are academically excellent, culturally responsive and deeply committed to public service,\u201d said Cal State LA provost and vice president for academic affairs Heather Lattimer. \u201cThe impact will be felt in schools, public agencies and nonprofit organizations across Los Angeles for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gift to CSUDH is also the largest that campus has ever received, and brings the Ballmer Group\u2019s total support to nearly $53 million. The funds will help launch Toros Heal L.A., an initiative that aims to build a stronger \u201cculturally responsive, community-rooted\u201d local mental health workforce, primarily by funding scholarships, licensure preparation and emergency aid for students pursuing community and mental health training.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur students\u2019 lived experiences strengthen them as practitioners and create opportunities for building a thriving behavioral health infrastructure within the populations they come from,\u201d said Mi-Sook Kim, dean of CSUDH\u2019s College of Health, Human Services &amp; Nursing and a leader of the initiative. \u201cThe majority of our graduates take the transformative education they receive here and go on to work in their home communities, maximizing the impact of this gift outside the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"subscribe-box-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/themes\/custom\/ihe\/assets\/images\/svg\/envlope.svg\" alt=\"subscribe\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ballmer Group has donated $77 million to two California State University campuses to improve mental health services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":710531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2563,407,2879,2878,420,2961,224,5337,50],"class_list":["post-710530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116362284332349767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}