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Waiting for people in crisis before we do it. Thank you, eduardo i want to give you a chance to elaborate on it. We heard basically that one of the basic symptoms of a person with severe illness is that they cant recognize that they are mentally ill. How do you deal with that when you approach someone that they dont think they are sick . Let me reframe it. What do you do about, if i asked you if you were mentally ill and you say no and that actually becomes a way of diagnosing you as mentally ill, doesnt that present a lot of problems . People, and that actually is one of the things that i thi...

73,000 a month on health care for people picked up by paramedics and drunk in public and hospitals. I think thats good. I know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the Program Complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and housed at the end of the program. We think thats good. And there are serial neeb rate programs across the united states. We have a call from ireland and alaska which begs the question how can you be homeless in alaska . But there are. If i were brought to a conference for the police, wed have a very different point of view. If i was at a con...

A process under the act that is set up to protect peoples civil rights. One of the things in 1421 that hasnt been i am mplemented in the counties, the real issues as a matter of course is what is the process for hospitalization under the enforcement. Under this program, if someone misses a doctors appointment, they can call the police to take them to the upon the hospital for an evaluation. You might say there is something about that. But whe we see peoples interaction for service, when they see police and someone upfront, as a criminal or someone to be weary of or suspicious of or to the fact...

Is to make sure those people that need help get the help they want. Our clients are offered treatment and across the board every Single Person arrested for that are offered services an they all get help. Everyone of them gets help. And my outcomes show that they benefit from that. Thank you. [ applause ] you were a substance treatment expert for the medical center. I understand there is some promising new treatments about alcohol that maybe on the horizon. Tell us about that. As far as treatment for alcoholism, the first things to consider is how somebody gets into treatment in the first place...

View. The nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. The police are going to arrest these. The attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. They are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do it morally. So, if im walking down the street and im pulling my dogs chain or i leave my dog outside in the cold and i dont feed it and it has Health Problems or i kick it and make fun of it and treat it harshly, you can arrest me. But i can do that to a person and you think ...