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STIGMA, DISCRIMINATION, OR BOTH?
When we talk about stigma around issues of mental health and severe mental illness, we usually hear a single, consistent message: the vast majority of
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”
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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