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Provisions in the law include: The patient must be an adult (18 or over) resident of the state of Washington; The patient must be mentally competent, verified by two physicians (or referred to a mental health evaluation) The patient must be terminally ill with less than 6 months to live, verified by two physicians.
Washington State's Community Protection Act of 1990 authorizes the civil commitment of "sexually violent predators," or persons who suffer from a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes them likely to engage in predatory acts of sexual violence.
The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA) (also known as the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act, Mental Retardation Facilities and Construction Act, Public Law 88-164, or the Mental Retardation and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963) was an act to provide federal funding for community mental health ...
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The state needs to reopen some of its mental-health facilities or build new ones, so there will be a sufficient number of beds to accommodate people suffering from mental disabilities.
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was legislation signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled House of ...
The Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is Washington's social services department. The agency has its headquarters in Office Building Two (OB-2) in Olympia , the state capital. [ 1 ] Annually, 2.2 million children, families, vulnerable adults and seniors come to the department for protection, comfort, food assistance, financial aid ...
These new laws, in addition to harm reduction efforts related to legalizing xylazine or "tranq" testing strips, were penned the wake of Evers declaring 2023 "The Year of Mental Health" in which he ...