Laura's Law is a California state law that allows for court-ordered assisted outpatient treatment. To qualify for the program, the person must have a serious mental illness plus a recent history of psychiatric hospitalizations, jailings or acts, threats or attempts of serious violent behavior towards self or others.
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT), sometimes called "Laura's Law," is for people with severe and persistent mental illness who need treatment to prevent substantial deterioration of their condition, and who may pose a risk to themselves or others.
Service Provider Individualized Recovery Intensive Training (SPIRIT) is a college accredited recovery oriented, peer led classroom and experiential-based program for individuals with lived behavioral health experience as a client/consumer or a family member.
Service Provider Individualized Recovery Intensive Training (SPIRIT) is a college accredited recovery oriented, peer led classroom and experiential-based program for individuals with lived behavioral health experience as a client/consumer or a family member.
Signed into law in 2002, Laura's Law was adopted by the state Legislature after a man with mental illness fatally shot Laura Wilcox, a 19-year-old volunteer at a Nevada County mental health clinic. The legislation allows each county in the state to decide whether to adopt the provision.
Kendra's Law was named in memory of Kendra Webdale, a young woman who died in January, 1999 after being pushed in front of a New York City subway train by a man with a history of mental illness and hospitalizations.
Contra Costa County provides financial assistance for unemployed and disabled persons. Unemployed people can receive monthly payments up to $336 for up to 90-days in a 12-month period. Disabled people can receive monthly payments up to $375 continuously.
The CARE Act authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan that may include treatment, housing resources, and other services for persons with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders who are not clinically stabilized in ongoing ...
CARE Act Rollout CARE Act implementation started in October 2023 with seven counties (Glenn, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Stanislaus, Tuolumne), and Los Angeles County followed two months later.
It has two distinct parts: the business part, which sets out the ground rules or framework for the work, and the therapeutic side, which sets out what the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions describes as the 'client's expressed needs and choices' (Good Practice, point 31a).