Don't the mental health professionals have to report a possibly dangerous condition ?
HA! From what I have seen lately of mental health, they could care less. I suspect that they get funding, much the same way as schools, via headcount.
I spend Saturdays with mentally challenged people, taking them out shopping, for dinner, visits to zoo's or other activities. I know of a case where one person at a foster home tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists. The foster people didn't want him around, felt he was a danger to the others. So, the guy gets placed in a foster home where the people let the clients drink till they are drunk, no curfews, no supervusion at all. Makes no sense.
One of my friends and I took him along with the others we take on Saturdays and after he got home, he called my friend telling her that he was having 'bad thoughts' about her and myself. He had told her before that he thinks of raping and killing all the time. He only lives a couple of blocks from where she lives. Scared her bad enough that she called mental health. They suggested we not take him with us anymore.
No kidding! Doh!
We've reported foster people for not giving adequate care to their clients. I took one of them get medical attention because they had an ear infection for several months and the ear had pus draining out of it. One client was bitten by twice by a dog owned by the foster people. The wound needed stitches but the foster people slapped a band aid on it and sent him off to the day center. My friend called and told mental health, so they were aware on the injury. This type of crap has gone on for YEARS, but these people just keep taking on more clients. They don't care and are in it for the money. And unfortuantely, it looks like mental health is too.
I could go on and on, about the mental health clinics in that county, but why bother.