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‘Excruciatingly slow’: Delays in workers’ comp payments harm firefighters, frustrate therapists

Imelda Padilla-Frausto, research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, shares how the long delays in receiving payments for treating patients with workers' compensation claims for mental health care treatment have pushed some doctors to no longer accept such patients.
Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
VoyageLA

Check Out Imelda Padilla-Frausto’s Story

In this Q&A, Imelda Padilla-Frausto shares her "non-traditional" journey from studying engineering and computer science at community college in central New Mexico to research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
California Healthline

California Is Investing $500M in Therapy Apps for Youth. Advocates Fear It Won’t Pay Off.

Nearly half of California youths from the ages of 12 to 17 report having recently struggled with mental health issues, with nearly a third experiencing serious psychological distress, according to a 2021 study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Also published on KFF Health News.
Mental Health Program, California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Los Angeles Times

How do you help homebound, hungry seniors? These services deliver free meals

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's Kathryn Kietzman and Imelda Padilla-Frausto are cited in this article about hunger among older adults.
Elder Index, Food Insecurity
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, Kathryn G. Kietzman
JBHE

Biracial Black Adults Found to have more mental health needs than monoracial adults

A new study from the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Los Angeles finds that adults who identify as Black and at least one other race are more likely to need mental health services than those who identify only as Black.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
UCLA Newsroom

Multiracial Black adults more likely to need mental health services than monoracial Blacks

California adults who identify as Black and at least one other race or more likely to need mental health services than those who identify as Black, according to a study published today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Telemundo 52

“Quiero ayudar a otros padres”: el trabajo voluntario le sirve de consuelo por la muerte de su hijo

Dr. Imelda Padilla with the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research says social media impacts young LGBTQ+ people, making them more vulnerable to risk factors of suicide ideation.

D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Capital & Main

In the Middle of a Mental Health Crisis Among Youth, Words Matter

The first step is the definition. The next step is utilization," said D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto, PhD, MPH, a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, who helped craft the definition. "Research and evidence-based practices, or EBP, are primarily developed for English-speaking children and don't capture children speaking other languages and other cultures," explains Padilla-Frausto. "If that's how EBP are decided, are we capturing the needs of other groups?

Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
Capital & Main

The Untold Story of COVID's Impact on California's Mental Health

"It's a very clear, direct line," said Imelda Padilla-Frausto, a research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. We were actually seeing, in real time, people losing their jobs or their incomes or having their lives disrupted in other significant ways, and seeing how all of that contributed to their stressors and resulting poor mental health.

Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto
UCLA Newsroom

Under COVID-era stay-at-home orders, household conflicts had direct link to poor mental health

Mental health recovery from the pandemic begins when equitable policies are made to address the social and economic crises of the pandemic," Padilla-Frausto said, adding that the pandemic's effects on mental health and on people's social lives and personal relationships will be felt for years to come.

Mental Health Program
D. Imelda Padilla-Frausto