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A law offers relief to families struggling to care for serious mentally ill loved ones.
Janet Hays interviews Judge Calvin Johnson about the Assisted Outpatient Treatment law and two parents in the New Orleans region who share their stories about similar struggles to get care for their seriously mentally ill children that resulted in very different outcomes.
Discussed is a little known law that has been implemented in almost every State in the Union known as Assisted Outpatient Treatment. In Louisiana the law is known as Nicola's law. It has been proven successful in providing families with the tools they need to care for seriously mentally ill loved ones in the community who may be intentionally or unintentionally resisting care.
Discussed is a little known law that has been implemented in almost every State in the Union known as Assisted Outpatient Treatment. In Louisiana the law is known as Nicola's law. It has been proven successful in providing families with the tools they need to care for seriously mentally ill loved ones in the community who may be intentionally or unintentionally resisting care.
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The Mental Health Care System is Broken from Top to Bottom.
The excitement of medicaid expansion in Louisiana brings with it hope that having access to health care will offer relief to families struggling with untreated serious mental illness, but will it?
Janet Hays interviews two parents in the New Orleans region who say for them money wasn't the problem. [44:40] It was legal impediments such as HIPAA rules, lack of communication and connectivity between services that sent them swirling into the broken mental health system nightmare.
There is hope that a little known law that has been implemented in almost every State in the Union can help. The law is Assisted Outpatient Treatment. In Louisiana the law is known as Nicola's law. It has been proven successful in providing families with the tools they need to care for seriously mentally ill loved ones in the community who may be intentionally or unintentionally resisting care.
Funding for [AOT] is a provision in a bipartisan bill proposed by Representatives Tim Murphy and Eddie Bernice Johnson. H.R. 2646 - "The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act" and is meant to help those specifically with Serious Mental Illness. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2646
Per racial discrimination, Representative Murphy notes that:
"federal policies are harshest on people who are minorities and low income.
Let me describe them:
If you're an African-American you're half as likely to receive psychiatric treatment As non-Black. Much of that is because there just aren't services In many of the communities. Only 3% of psychiatrists and 2% of psychologists are African-American, 5% of psychiatrists and 3% of psychologists are Latino But among the Spanish with the mental health disorder fewer Than one in 11 see a mental health specialist. And overall outpatient mental health spending is 40% lower for African-Americans and 25% lower for Latinos. So where do they go? They go to jail, become homeless or die.
Psychiatric Services published findings that individuals from minority communities are less likely to receive adequate follow-up following discharge from a hospital - which we know makes them more likely to be re-hospitalized or otherwise trapped in the revolving door of poor outcomes, including criminalization."
http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/racial-disparities.pdf
The excitement of medicaid expansion in Louisiana brings with it hope that having access to health care will offer relief to families struggling with untreated serious mental illness, but will it?
Janet Hays interviews two parents in the New Orleans region who say for them money wasn't the problem. [44:40] It was legal impediments such as HIPAA rules, lack of communication and connectivity between services that sent them swirling into the broken mental health system nightmare.
There is hope that a little known law that has been implemented in almost every State in the Union can help. The law is Assisted Outpatient Treatment. In Louisiana the law is known as Nicola's law. It has been proven successful in providing families with the tools they need to care for seriously mentally ill loved ones in the community who may be intentionally or unintentionally resisting care.
Funding for [AOT] is a provision in a bipartisan bill proposed by Representatives Tim Murphy and Eddie Bernice Johnson. H.R. 2646 - "The Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act" and is meant to help those specifically with Serious Mental Illness. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2646
Per racial discrimination, Representative Murphy notes that:
"federal policies are harshest on people who are minorities and low income.
Let me describe them:
If you're an African-American you're half as likely to receive psychiatric treatment As non-Black. Much of that is because there just aren't services In many of the communities. Only 3% of psychiatrists and 2% of psychologists are African-American, 5% of psychiatrists and 3% of psychologists are Latino But among the Spanish with the mental health disorder fewer Than one in 11 see a mental health specialist. And overall outpatient mental health spending is 40% lower for African-Americans and 25% lower for Latinos. So where do they go? They go to jail, become homeless or die.
Psychiatric Services published findings that individuals from minority communities are less likely to receive adequate follow-up following discharge from a hospital - which we know makes them more likely to be re-hospitalized or otherwise trapped in the revolving door of poor outcomes, including criminalization."
http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/racial-disparities.pdf
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