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Read Replies (1) | Respond to "Governors control mental hospitals. Reagan was president."Opinion: Here's how Reagan created the homelessness crisis - The San Diego Union-Tribune (sandiegouniontribune.com) DIVYA KAKAIYA, PH.D., M.S. Kakaiya , Ph.D, is a licensed clinical psychologist and neuroscientist, lives in 4S Ranch. in the 1960s , many state mental health hospitals closed, forcing many folks who needed a lot of care onto the streets. Without those facilities, many mentally ill people ended up in jails and prisons which are not set up to provide safe, compassionate care for brain illnesses. But in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan deinstitutionalized the mentally ill and emptied the psychiatric hospitals into so-called “community” clinics, the problem got worse.50 percent and 60 percent were diagnosed with schizophrenia. The fact that many of these people struggled with various forms of brain dysfunction was not recognized back then. With so many advances in brain science, experts now know that we need to be able to coordinate care in residential facilities, especially if we are housing people at $4,000 per day in a local medical hospital.8,427 individuals, a 10 percent increase from 2020. Of those surveyed, 85 percent said they had fallen into homelessness in our region.28 percent from two years earlier. More than a third of those visits involved a diagnosis of mental illness, according to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. By contrast, 6 percent of all hospital discharges in California during that time involved a mental health diagnosis.CARE court system that Gov. Gavin Newsom and California lawmakers created last year and that county government is implementing locally so courts can impose services on people with severe mental illness. This program will provide the support and the extra guardrails needed for a person whose brain is not functioning at its optimum capacity.
