The proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom 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.
Some mental health experts have objected to forced care as an erosion of civil liberties. Newsom said patients who end up in his proposed"care courts" would have a public defender and a peer supporter to advocate for them, and that any treatment plan would be carefully supervised by the court.to state conservatorship laws, said the status quo is unacceptable.
"For far too long, government at every level has allowed individuals who struggle with mental illness and addiction to language untreated on our streets, cycling between our jails and emergency rooms with little hope of ever getting the care that they truly and desperately need," Gloria said.Newsom hopes the proposal can win approval from California lawmakers by June, with a rollout targeted for January.
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 said he expects the program could apply to 7,000 to 12,000 people in California, although not all have to be homeless.
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