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  2. Laura's Law - Wikipedia

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    Laura Wilcox was a 19-year-old college sophomore who had been valedictorian of her high school before going on to study at Haverford College. [1] While working at Nevada County's public mental health clinic during her winter break from college, on January 10, 2001, she and two other people were shot to death by Scott Harlan Thorpe, a 40-year-old man who resisted his family's and a social ...

  3. Elyn Saks - Wikipedia

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    Saks says "there's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life." [ 9 ] In recent years, researchers have begun talking about mental health care in the same way addiction specialists speak of recovery—the lifelong journey of ...

  4. Vacaville man is blind, homeless and schizophrenic. Why can’t ...

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    “Laura’s Law,” which provides court-ordered treatment in the community for a small number of severely mentally ill people, doesn’t apply to people with traumatic brain injuries. Solano ...

  5. Lanterman–Petris–Short Act - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, SB 1045 was signed into California law, establishing a pilot program in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties, if the counties approve. It would allow for the creation of a conservatorship for a person who is unable to care for his or her own health and well-being due to serious mental illness and substance use disorder.

  6. What Lawyers Can Do for their Mental and Physical Health - AOL

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  7. Helping seriously mentally ill is compassion, not coercion - AOL

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    Despite decades of effort, California is still far from creating an effective approach to treating severely mentally ill citizens, many of whom are homeless and desperately subsisting on our streets.

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