{"id":2755,"date":"2025-05-01T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:04:35","slug":"20250501-care-act-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/20250501-care-act-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA ALERT &#8211; Public invited to attend CARE Act Town Hall Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2755\" class=\"elementor elementor-2755\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6cd79055 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6cd79055\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-21436eca\" data-id=\"21436eca\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59996323 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59996323\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>VENTURA, Calif. \u2013 The County of Ventura, in partnership with the Ventura Superior Court, will hold an informative town hall meeting to educate the public on the services available through the recently implemented Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act Program, which connects individuals facing serious mental health and substance use challenges with vital care, treatment, and support services.<\/p><p>Attendees will learn about program eligibility, requirements, and local implementation efforts. The event will be presented in person and be available via Zoom. Spanish and ASL interpretation will be provided.<\/p><p><strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/p><p>Speakers include:<\/p><ul><li>Hon. Matthew P. Guasco, Presiding Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Ventura<\/li><li>Justus Spillner, Assistant County Counsel, County of Ventura<\/li><li>Katia Benthale, Deputy Public Defender, Ventura County Public Defender\u2019s Office<\/li><li>Dr. John Schipper, Chief of Forensic, Justice-Involved and Re-Entry Services Division, Ventura County Behavioral Health<\/li><li>Jessica Brown, Court Manger \u2013 Operations, Superior Court of California, County of Ventura<\/li><li>Connie White, SHLAC Supervising Attorney, Superior Court of California, County of Ventura<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong><\/p><p>Thursday, May 15, 2025<br \/>6:00 \u2013 7:30 p.m.<\/p><p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong><\/p><p>Ventura County Government Center,<br \/>Hall of Administration, Lower Plaza Assembly Room<br \/>800 S. Victoria Ave.<br \/>Ventura, CA 93009<\/p><p><strong>Or join via Zoom at:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.venturacounty.gov\/careactevent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"BE\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.venturacounty.gov\/careactevent\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.venturacounty.gov\/careactevent - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\">https:\/\/www.venturacounty.gov\/careactevent<\/a><\/li><li>Meeting ID: 814 7194 7530<\/li><li>Passcode: 484640<\/li><\/ul><p>Download flyer: <a href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.venturacounty.gov\/COV\/care_act\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"English - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-pdf-br=\"2\" data-uw-pdf-doc=\"\">English<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.venturacounty.gov\/COV\/care_act\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer_sp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Spanish - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" data-uw-pdf-br=\"2\" data-uw-pdf-doc=\"\">Spanish<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44644b3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"44644b3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99e3fc8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"99e3fc8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/vcportal.venturacounty.gov\/COV\/care_act\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" src=\"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer-1024x1325.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2759\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer-1024x1325.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer-480x621.jpg 480w, https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CareAct-TownHall_Flyer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Click image to download flyer<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENTURA, Calif. \u2013 The County of Ventura, in partnership with the Ventura Superior Court, will hold an informative town hall meeting to educate the public on the services available through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-resource-management-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.venturacounty.gov\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}