California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed his 'CARE Act' on Wednesday, which would allow family members or first responders to request homeless people with severe mental health be put into treatment.
disorders bounce from the streets to jails and hospitals. They can be held against their will at a psychiatric hospital for up to three days. But they must be released if they promise to take medication and follow up with other services.
Some progressives have spoken out against Newsom blocking certain priorities, including vetoing a bill that would have authorized supervised safe-injection sites for drug users and opposing a new tax on millionaires that would pay for more electric cars. They say that courts are a frightening place for many people with severe mental illness and coercion is antithetical to the peer-based model that is critical to recovery. In other words, critics say, a person needs to want to get help and that could take months or years.
That means people struggling with alcohol and opioid addiction won’t qualify unless they have a diagnosed psychiatric disorder. The program would not begin until next year, and only in seven counties: Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne must establish programs by Oct 1, 2023. All other counties would have until Dec. 1, 2024.
Newsom echoed those comments, saying implementation will be key. The state budget this year includes $296.5 million for the "Workforce for a Healthy California for All Program," which aims to recruit 25,000 community health workers by 2025.
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