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Santa Clara County prepares to implement conservatorship changes

Original post made on Dec 11, 2023

Santa Clara County is expediting the implementation of new conservatorship rules for people suffering from severe mental illness and substance use disorders -- the process will be complicated and costly.

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Posted by PST
a resident of South of Midtown
on Dec 11, 2023 at 10:29 am
PST is a registered user.

Increasing involuntary services and institutional beds is a terrible mistake when we have too few voluntary options for people. Well intended but misguided people pushed for this partly from frustration with the inadequate and underfunded so called system now in place. So sad years of work is getting undone to finance this approach which will fail to help our neighbors and family members in need.

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