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California is full of mentally ill homeless.
Prayers for Alma. Her name means "the soul". Heartbreaking story, something Scrooge would do. I despise the government. It seems this is a scheme to employ more liberals as "social workers" and pad out the union rolls.
This will work about as well as closing of long term facilities for the chronically mentally ill.
I wonder how many of these “disability rights” people have ever actually gone to places like this, or if they are capable of putting themselves into other people’s shoes?
Instead, the “disability rights” people seem to have a one-size-fits-all mentality—that if being in the community is good for a person in a wheelchair, then it will be good for each and every disabled person no matter what their disability or circumstance.
Maybe instead of constantly trying to change the circumstances of people they do not know, the “disability rights” people should focus on helping individuals in need of help.
Thw closings of these facilities mean more disabled people homeless, living under bridges or up to the families to figure it out, just as it has been with all our mentally ill. The mentally ill were turned out of their facilities in name of “civil rights” and are now privileged enough to live under bridges, where they have their freedom, but no clean bed or shower or hot food or treatment, or their families struggle to put them up as in my case, at some risk because the mentally ill do not see their own illness and will not seek treatment, and act aggressively to those who want to help them.
Good work, progressives, you f8ck up everything.
My daughter works part time at a Christian community based group home for several developmentally disabled adult women.
Hers is a very good situation but I would think that a larger, well run facility could be very beneficial for their clients.
There’s a group home a few doors down from me. I have no idea how many men are there because they never come outside.
As a judge, my father held hearings in the 70s when Florida broadly deinstitutionalized care for its disabled. Although the purpose of the hearings was to offer but not require deinstitutionalization, many of the disabled were utterly terrified and in tears at any prospect of losing their accustomed home and the people who cared for them.
Nancy Pelosi and the other white liberal 'elites' in San Francisco have the solution. Dump the disabled and mentally challenged onto the streets - then use them as cheap sex toys - just remember to keep hammers away from them...
I lived in a town where the pa state hospital is located. That facility has consistently downsized and released the patients to the local community. The community pays for this through multiple group homes, increased nuisance crimes and generalized fear when the crazy people walk around threatening and acting strange. Many have died of exposure, some live in the woods. The families don’t want them back this they stay in the small (4000 population) town. These folks are not developmental lacking, they are nuts. So closing state facilities may save the overall budget but the cost to the community is far greater than remote budget weenies could ever imagine. Same with putting these disabled folks on the street. The cost locally will be much higher than anyone could imagine.
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The SAME state voted for FETTERMAN-—
GO figure