Mark Fowler, of L.A. County's Department of Mental Health HOME Team, helps Chris Herrin step down from a county van upon arrival at a hotel participating in a temporary housing program.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every weekday, you'll get fresh, community-driven stories that catch you up with our independent local news.
“For example, people are much more likely to tell me about their knee that’s bugging them that makes it that they can’t walk around than the voices that they might be hearing,” Feldman said. Lawmakers and mental health advocates have focused largely in recent years on building more psychiatric beds and residential treatment facilities, but there aren’t enough to meet current needs and they aren’t being built fast enough, Feldman said.
After Jackson and her team of eight psychiatrists and other support staff bring people under their care, it can still take six months to a year or more for people to get placed in a mental health facility or permanent supportive housing, she said. Several state-led efforts to bring more unhoused people living with serious mental illness into treatment are underway in L.A. County.For example, the CARE Court program aims to get more people into treatment by way of a court-ordered treatment program. So far, CARE Courtand across the state as the number of petitions filed in the early part of this year has been much lower than expected.
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