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Podcast: The Bay
Episode: Will ‘CARE Court’ Help People Dealing with Mental Illness and Homelessness?
Description: California’s mental health care system is a mess. And at the same time, unsheltered homelessness is increasing and voters want their leaders to do something about it.Those are some of the reasons why Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposal called the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Court — or CARE Court. The idea is to provide a coordinated mental health treatment plan for a patient, under the supervision of a judge.But there’s also a catch: if the patient refuses that treatment, that could also be used as grounds for conservatorship, where the judge...