Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a plan Thursday to force homeless people with severe mental health and addiction disorders into treatment.
The proposal by Newsom, a Democrat, would require all counties in California to set up a mental health branch in civil court to assist people in need of help but who won’t accept services.The state would require counties to provide comprehensive treatment to those suffering from debilitating psychosis and people would be obligated to accept the care.
Some advocates for the homeless have objected to forced care, but Newsom told the San Francisco Chronicle it is past time to talk about civil rights when people are attacking others.Several Dems in Congress Demand Prison Rape Audit of Dublin Women’s Prison California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly called the plan the “beginning of a conversation about how we address one of the most important problems in California.”
He said the effort is to address what “for many of us is one of the most heartbreaking, heart-wrenching” challenges, and “that is how do we serve the needs of individuals who are the sickest of the sick?”Ghaly says he expects the program could apply to 7,000 to 12,000 people in California, although not all have to be homeless.© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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