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re: The homeless encampment under the expressway in NOLA is out of control.
Posted on 10/9/18 at 4:56 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 10/9/18 at 4:56 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Who made these decisions? Can you lay out how this played out?
Back in the day the severely mentally ill were warehoused in facilities that were often truly awful. Partly due to humanitarian motives, and partly due to budgetary motives, most of those facilities were closed. Community based mental health programs were supposed to take their place, but for the most part they were never set up or funded to a sufficient level, of they were instituted at all. Furthermore, even
when resources are available, it's much more difficult to commit someone against his/her will.
And that's not even getting into the substance abuse issue, which is usually intertwined with the mental illness.
ETA my little town in BFE has homeless now. I don't know where they come from or where they stay, but you see them roaming the streets at all hours.
This post was edited on 10/9/18 at 4:58 pm
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Posted on 10/10/18 at 10:37 am to Jim Rockford
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Back in the day the severely mentally ill were warehoused in facilities that were often truly awful. Partly due to humanitarian motives, and partly due to budgetary motives, most of those facilities were closed. Community based mental health programs were supposed to take their place, but for the most part they were never set up or funded to a sufficient level, of they were instituted at all. Furthermore, even when resources are available, it's much more difficult to commit someone against his/her will. And that's not even getting into the substance abuse issue, which is usually intertwined with the mental illness. ETA my little town in BFE has homeless now. I don't know where they come from or where they stay, but you see them roaming the streets at all hours.
Wasn't there litigation or court decisions involved as well from the 1960s through the 1980s? Judges said it was unconstitutional to force citizens into the confinement of mental health institutions against their will? Again, anecdotal, as I remember hearing it said on radio many years ago, now, and I didn't have my notebook open so that I could quote for the OT.
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