What One Devastated Community Can Teach the World About Mental Health

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 4:32 p.m.

A year ago, while on a tourist visit to Latvia, Sharon Bard was awoken at 4 am by a buzzing alert from her phone. It was an email from a friend who\u2019d been checking on her home in Santa Rosa, California. Given the alarming news, the email's phrasing was rather gentle: A fire had broken out in the area, officials had ordered evacuations, and Bard\u2019s country house at the end of a road might be affected. Then came the deluge.