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Report on Improving Mental Health Outcomes

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These approaches include Peer Respites, Soteria Houses, Open Dialogue, Drug-Free Hospitals, Housing First, Employment, Warm Lines, Hearing Voices Network, Non-Police Community Response Teams, and emotional CPR (eCPR). The White Paper published last April included universally applicable information as well as Alaska specific circumstances.

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

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For example, in recent years P&As have exposed and opposed excessive use of restraints at New Yorks Bellevue hospital , over-representation of Black residents in psychiatric incarceration in Californias Alameda County , and abusive forced stripping in Washington facilities. Yet she had no idea what a P&A was.