James M. Karls (jan 1, 1927 – jan 1, 2008)

Description:

After serving in World War II, Dr. James M. Karls began his outstanding 59 years of social work in public mental health services at the local and state level. He started the first mental health clinics in California’s Central Valley. He was the Associate Director and then Director of the Mental Health Training Center in Southern California, which offered seminars to anyone in the mental health field in the southern half of the state. He followed that as Director of Mental Health Research for California. He was a part-time faculty member at UCSB, UCLA, University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State and USC.

Added to timeline:

Date: