Gateways Primary Sources

1940 – One thousand strikes of government employees – David Ziskind PhD thesis published by Columbia University Press

1950 – Testimony to members of Planning Committee, Los Angeles City Council, in behalf of ordinance to prevent segregation and discrimination in Community Redevelopment Agency housing projects

1956 – The Law of Employee Benefit Plans – David Ziskind

1956 – Fire Department inquiry with David Ziskind

1956 – David Ziskind letter to Loren Miller about Pittsburgh ordinance

1958 – Child actors unemployment hearing

Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center – Serving the Patient, the Family, and Community pamphlet

1961 – Dedication of Gateways at Effie Street

1970 – Troubled teenage girl, Gateways Hospital and Community Mental Health Center, Los Angeles, UCLA Library Digital Collections

1973 – Keeping the Gates to Gateways Open pamphlet

1978 – The Newsletter of Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center

Gateways Is Different pamphlet

1980 – Gateways Gatekeeper newsletter

1993 – Louis Ziskind Interview by Marj Schwarz CSWA

1994 – Peace through the United Nations by David Ziskind

1995 – Gateways Hospital Men’s Club Tribute to Nat & Barbara Winters – Recipients of 1995 Golden Heal-a-Mind Award

1997 – Ed Humel transcript of Lou Ziskind interview

1999 – Recollections of Trauma_ Scientific Evidence and Clinical Practice _ American Journal of Psychiatry – Esther Somerfeld Ziskind

2001 – The Social Context of Nonverbal Behavior _ American Journal of Psychiatry – Esther Somerfeld Ziskind review

2001 – David Ziskind; Helped Desegregate L.A. Fire Department – LAT

2002 – Dr. Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind, 101; Pioneering Physician obituary – LAT

2022 – An expert’s view_ Where we’ve gone wrong on mental illness – LAT

2003 – Financials for Gateways from California Health Financing Authority

2003 – Gateways’ 50th celebration at Regent Beverly Wilshire – Jewish Journal

2005 – A History of the Jewish Committee for Personal Service and Gateways Hospital and Community Mental Health Center – A Memoir of My Life in Social Work 1939-1985

2007 – Louis Ziskind, 98; started hospital to treat mental illness – LAT

2012 – Grace Hechanova v. Gateways Hospital & Mental Health Center

2012 – Gateways 2012 union contract – la_county_uhw_gateways_hospital_and_mental_health_center_mou_2014-10-31

2013 – Objects of Daily Life- Materiality in North American Institutions for the Insane – Bazar

2019 – Echo Park mental health center and former CEO settle discrimination lawsuit _ Echo Park News _ theeastsiderla.com

2019 – HSRD Attorneys Represent Former CEO in Lawsuit Against Gateways Hospital, Settlement Reached After Opening Statements _ Hadsell

2021 – No driving, working or dating_ This program controls people leaving psych hospitals – LAT

2022 – An expert’s view_ Where we’ve gone wrong on mental illness – LAT

2022 – Schizophrenia and California’s failed mental health system – LAT

2023 – Business Briefs_ Summit BHC, Gateways Hospital, Meadows Behavioral Healthcare

2023 – Echo Park mental health center gets $19.2 million to expand youth services _ Echo Park News _ theeastsiderla.com

2023 – Los Angeles Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center Becomes the Largest Provider of Acute Care for Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder in Los Angeles County

2024 – Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center Opens New Sensory Room, Providing Vulnerable Clients with Innovative, Client-Centered Care

2024 – Respecting the tortured voice and troubled choices of the mentally ill

Gateways Hospital and Mental Health Center – Serving the Patient, the Family, and Community pamphlet

Jewish Committee for Personal Serviece in State Institutions – 3rd Annual Report

Threshold to a Brighter Tomorrow – Gateways pamphlet – date unknown

Ziskinds timeline (April 2024)