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Date % req. Yes No Alabama: Legislature: Failed Amendment 1 Exempts local laws or local constitutional amendments from the budget isolation resolution process. Mar 5 >50% 341,515 48.69% 359,850 51.31%: California: Legislature: Approved Proposition 1: Reforms the Mental Health Services Act and issues $6.38 billion in bonds for homeless ...
The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.The department operates Virginia's public mental health, intellectual disability, and substance abuse services system through a system of forty locally and regionally run community services boards (CSBs) and twelve state-operated facilities [1] which serve children ...
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In the 2020 Virginia special legislative session on criminal justice reform and budgeting during the COVID-19 pandemic, House Bill 5043, titled the Mental Health Awareness Response and Community Understanding Services, or MARCUS alert system, introduced by Delegate Jeff Bourne, initiated a program to encourage use of mental health professionals ...
The ballot measure also asks voters whether to approve a restructuring of state Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) funding, which comes from a 2004 millionaire’s tax, that would shift an ...
In March, the death of Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man who died during intake at the mental health facility in Virginia, sparked outrage, and 10 people have been charged with second-degree ...
It was reassigned in 1870 to the treatment of "colored persons of unsound mind" and was the first to offer treatment exclusively to the black population of Virginia. Dorothea Dix visited the hospital in 1875, during her travels for mental health reform, and donated pictures and musical instruments. Building for chronically ill females
The problem underscores a widely held consensus that Virginia’s mental health care system is in urgent need of reform, due to what Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says is an overreliance ...