Voters in California will decide next month whether to impose steep new taxes on wine, beer and hard liquor to support alcohol-abuse and mental-health programs.

And it would have rolled back community-based mental-health programs that have been credited with reducing homelessness.

A16 Steep taxes on wine, beer and liquor may be imposed in California to support alcohol-abuse and mental-health programs.

She is also a counselor at Riverside Community Care, a residential mental-health program in Dedham, Mass.

"They should be in mental-health programs."

The two women share an advocacy for mental-health programs, as well as for their husbands, whom they met in school.

The bridegroom's mother and stepfather own Goodrick & Goodrick, consultants in Washington for public mental-health programs.

California voters will weigh steep new taxes on wine, beer and liquor to support alcohol-abuse and mental-health programs.

They're the most unwanted by mental-health programs.

The bride, 31, is the coordinator of social activities at Pibly Residential Programs, a residential mental-health program in the Bronx.