Opinion: State law meant to help severely mentally ill is a flop. Newsom right to seek better way. [Opinion]
this month for California’s 58 counties to create Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Courts to evaluate whether people with debilitating psychosis should receive court-ordered treatment and housing has received a mixed response as onlookers await details.
Under Newsom’s proposal, family members, clinicians, first responders and members of the community could refer people to CARE Court to be evaluated for possible treatment. With mental illness so intertwined with other societal issues, only starting with homelessness, his plan deserves a close look.
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