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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

All states and territories and several Native American tribes have a P&Ausually based at a nonprofit organization, and often with Disability Rights in their name. Those sound like constructive developments. In addition, the P&A Board and PAC now share responsibility for bringing on new PAC members.

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Construction Set to Begin on Downtown Mental-Health and Housing Development

Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.

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Sanctuary Centers to Break Ground on New Mental Health Facility in Downtown Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

This also led to a gradual discontinuation of the medical treatment with assistance from a Danish nonprofit that offers guidance on stepping down from psychopharmaceutical drugs. That bipolar is indeed only a name psychiatry has for a certain type of behavior.