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What Next: Mental Health Treatment—by Court Order

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

California’s new “CARE courts” are designed to help people struggling with psychotic disorders to get the help they need. But is having judges mandate treatment a step in the right direction? Guest: April Dembosky, health correspondent for KQED. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0

So April, how would you characterize the state of mental health care in California?

0:37.0

Most people would say it's pretty bad.

0:40.0

You know, our health care system was not set up from the beginning to care for people

0:48.9

with mental health issues. This is something we've had to cobble together over the last few decades.

0:55.0

April Dambosky is a health correspondent at KQED.

0:59.0

She's been covering California's latest attempt to address its mental health crisis. It's called

1:04.7

Care Court. It's a court system for people struggling with psychotic disorders like

1:10.4

schizophrenia and sometimes homelessness and substance abuse too.

1:15.3

The hope is to create a system that gets people the help they need but can't get for themselves.

1:21.0

Ideally that happens voluntarily, but a judge can also mandate care, including

1:26.6

involuntary commitment.

1:28.9

The program started at the beginning of October.

1:31.6

It's being piloted in seven counties and over the

1:34.2

next several months it'll expand across the state. And as controversial as it

1:39.1

sounds, the legislation passed almost unanimously.

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