The CARE Act: Understanding California’s New Model for Mental Health Treatment

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The CARE Act: Understanding California's New Model for Mental Health Treatment

Katherine Warburton
January 9, 2023
California Health & Human Services Agency

The CARE Act: Understanding California’s New Model for Mental Health Treatment

Intro

Individuals with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders are drifting into an untreated, unsheltered condition. These conditions are leading to increased contact with police and criminal charges. This increased contact is leading to a surge in IST referrals to state hospitals. Building more state hospital beds will only exacerbate the problem long term. IST restoration is not adequate long term treatment plan. So, what can we do?

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What role did serious mental illness play in Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings? Abstract expressionism and possible links to serious mental illness and encrypted images (polloglyphs)
What role did serious mental illness play in Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings? Abstract expressionism and possible links to serious mental illness and encrypted images (polloglyphs)
How antipsychotics work in schizophrenia: a primer on mechanisms
How antipsychotics work in schizophrenia: a primer on mechanisms
Advance directives in patients with schizophrenia
Advance directives in patients with schizophrenia
Liberty or life: mental health care in Australia
Liberty or life: mental health care in Australia
What is schizophrenia – symptomatology
What is schizophrenia – symptomatology
Liberty or life: the Aotearoa New Zealand perspective
Liberty or life: the Aotearoa New Zealand perspective
Evidence-based treatment for schizophrenia: a personal perspective
Evidence-based treatment for schizophrenia: a personal perspective
Failure to treat: an American policy perspective
Failure to treat: an American policy perspective
Dignity restored: the power of treatment first
Dignity restored: the power of treatment first
What is the neurobiology of schizophrenia?
What is the neurobiology of schizophrenia?
A unified understanding of the human mind—a neuroethical perspective
A unified understanding of the human mind—a neuroethical perspective
A neuroethical approach to human life, identity, and liberty of schizophrenic patients
A neuroethical approach to human life, identity, and liberty of schizophrenic patients
The CARE Act: Understanding California’s New Model for Mental Health Treatment
The CARE Act: Understanding California’s New Model for Mental Health Treatment
Balancing the pendulum: Rethinking the role of institutionalization in the treatment of serious mental illness
Balancing the pendulum: Rethinking the role of institutionalization in the treatment of serious mental illness
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