BREAKDOWN – Part I: A Mental Health Care Crisis in San Diego Evidence of San Diego County s mental health crisis can be found almost anywhere you look. Parents, siblings and San Diegans give faces to the crisis in Part I of NBC 7 s BREAKDOWN.
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A mom, struggling to find the mental health care her son needs. A sister, heartbroken after her twin faced daunting mental health challenges. A family, desperate to navigate the system and find early intervention for their children. They are people we met during our investigation into what experts tell us is a mental health care crisis in San Diego. These are the stories of these San Diegans, as they try to break the stigma of mental health illness and advocate for change in the system.
John Fusco & The X-Road Riders –
John The Revelator (Self-produced): “More than three decades after a teenaged Fusco ran away from his New England home to Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta returning with a semi-autobiographical screenplay called Crossroads (and an unlikely discovery as a Hollywood screenwriter) the writer-musician returned to his old Southern stomping grounds. He was back in the Delta to film his Netflix hit The Highwaymen, but a series of impromptu jam sessions with Cody Dickinson, whose father Jim had been a music advisor on Crossroads, turned into an album of Fusco’s original blues. For John the Revelator, Fusco has assembled a cast of modern blues stars: Dickinson (the North Mississippi Allstars), who produced Fusco’s first, appears behind the board again and also contributes background vocals, drums, bass, guitars, dobro, piano, and electric washboard. Vocalist Risse Norman, who has toured and recorded with the North Mississippi Allstars and Sama