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Newsom’s Hari Kari
While Governor Newsom seeks to undo LPS damage while preserving its finest points, perplexingly, he vetoes the companion bill that would make care courts work – Senator Stern’s Bill SB 1446. SB 1446 required the consideration of a full continuum of housing and treatment guarantees into a more coordinated strategy that prioritizes high risk populations for what advocates call, “housing that heals.” https://hth.ttinet.com/Housing_That_Heals_2020.pdf
Handcuffed to Help
In case you missed it, on July 6th, The Advocate published the following letter regarding the futility of creating a “Crisis Intervention Strategy Task Force”
Recording of July 8th event: “Definition of Insanity” Screening and Panel
Hello Readers, On July 8th Healing Minds NOLA, in partnership with the Matthew Ornstein Memorial Foundation, hosted a screening of the much talked about documentary
News Articles
- The new plan for old Charity Hospital is foolish, Healing Minds NOLA president says
- Krewe: A quiet calamity, the crumbling mental health care system in Louisiana
- Letters: Use objective data to assess jail progress
- Dakota Theriot’s ex-wife, experts wonder if early mental health treatment would have helped alleged killer
- Possible layouts emerge for Charity Hospital redevelopment
- Short-term stays at ‘sobering center’ in New Orleans could be alternative to jail or ERs
- Frustration, skepticism meet potential plans to revive Charity Hospital in New Orleans
- Letters: Jails can’t be mental health centers
- Could a judge’s intervention help fix Louisiana’s mental health care system?
- Citizen input getting squeezed out of plans for Charity Hospital district
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