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An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and medical care — potentially without their ...
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 ...
The CARE Act, signed into law in 2022, requires counties to provide services for people with serious untreated disorders, such as schizophrenia, through voluntary or court-mandated treatment plans.
SB 1338’s CARE Court plan of treatment, housing, and a court-ordered response is a step in the right direction. Merced Mayor Matthew Serratto speaks during a news conference on Monday, June 28 ...
Disability rights advocates Patrisha Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), and Evan Kemp Jr. (of the Disability Rights Center) led an intense lobbying and grassroots campaign that generated more than 40,000 cards and letters. After three years, the Reagan Administration abandoned its attempts to revoke or amend the ...
The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act (AB 846), also known as the Lanterman Act, is a California law that was initially proposed by Assembly member Frank D. Lanterman in 1973 and passed in 1977 and gives people with developmental disabilities the right to services and supports that enable them to live a more independent and normal life.
Disability is an experience we can move in and out of over the course of our lives, and disabled people are the only minority group anyone can become a part of at any moment. Section 504 is not a ...
Alma mater: Harvard Law School, Stanford University Medical School, University of California, Riverside: Known for: Disability rights activist; author on disability rights, health care policy and finance, assisted dying, independent living movement; drafted regulations for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Title III; co-founder of Autonomy, Inc.; filed U.S. and Florida supreme court ...