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  2. Newsom signs mental health bill expanding definition for ...

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    Conservatorship is a form of treatment only used for people who have a mental health disorder so severe that it prevents them from providing for their own basic needs. These people may also pose a ...

  3. Lanterman–Petris–Short Act - Wikipedia

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    The Lanterman–Petris–Short (LPS) Act (Chapter 1667 of the 1967 California Statutes, codified as Cal. Welf & Inst. Code, sec. 5000 et seq.) regulates involuntary civil commitment to a mental health institution in the state of California. The act set the precedent for modern mental health commitment procedures in the United States.

  4. 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 ...

  5. New California law aims to force people with mental illness ...

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    Newsom's proposal, which would overhaul how counties pay for mental and behavioral health programs and borrow $6.3 billion to pay for 10,000 new mental health treatment beds, are expected to go ...

  6. New Freedom Commission on Mental Health - Wikipedia

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    The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established by U.S. President George W. Bush through Executive Order 13263 on April 29, 2002 to conduct a comprehensive study of the U.S. mental health service delivery system and make recommendations based on its findings. [1]

  7. 200 beds for 5,000 homeless people: Were promises made by ...

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    For a legal mental health conservatorship in California, referred to as a Lanterman-Petris-Short or LPS conservatorship, the proposed conservatee must have a formal diagnosis and must be ...

  8. Conservatorship - Wikipedia

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    Under U.S. law, a conservatorship results from the appointment of a guardian or a protector by a judge to manage the personal or financial affairs of another person who is incapable of fully managing their own affairs due to age or physical or mental limitations. A person under conservatorship is a "conservatee", a term that can refer to an adult.

  9. A conservatorship is a legal arrangement whereby a judge appoints a guardian to manage the personal ... and you or someone you know needs mental health assistance right now, call the National ...