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Their clients. Im a huge fan and knowing what we need to do 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 con...

Thank you. [ applause ]. I know we are going to be this hearing and discussing a lot more about Outpatient Mental Health treatment but lets take a moment to hear from danny mcclaegen from san diego. Tell us about the program. Is it working . Let me tell you what the program is about. Its a program where people are convicted for drink in public 5 or more times or arrested and held and if they are convicted for the crime in public. If you see it like a drug court model, thats how it works. So if we want to talk about is it successful, we can throw out a number of definitions for that. We know th...

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...