Honor. For the record, my name is nick wilcox, i live in penn valley in california here with my wife amanda who because of the crowded conditions is in the overflow room, shes also put in a speaker card and would like to reserve the right to speak at the end if she deems that necessary. I would like to thank supervisor farrell and mayor lee for your steadfast support of lauras law. As supervisor farrell said, amanda and i are the parents of laura wilcox, laura when she was 19 in 2001 died in a rampage shooting while she was trying to help people with severe Mental Illness. She was working at the Behavioral Mental Health clinic, i man named scott thorpe came in and shot her pointblank 4 times and she died instantly. Since that time we have come to realize, actually we came to realize rather early on in the process, that there are significant gaps in the Mental Health services system. We became involved with assembly mental Helen Thompson in ab 1421 which was eventually signed by the gov
It does require the courts involvement, which for some individuals can be a traumatic thing. Overall it provides crucial treatment for patients whose Mental Illness itself prevents them from recognizing that they in fact need treatment and will be able to benefit from it. I want to underscore that in the department of Public Health there are over 30,000 individuals each year who are treated in a voluntary way. The overwhelming majority of individuals who receive treatment do so in a completely voluntary way. These services that are provided by the department of Public Health will be accessible to this small population of individuals who are at very great risk for harm coming to them in the community. Its an effort to provide treatment that can potentially allow them to live a more satisfying and recoveryoriented life. So overall i want to emphasize that this is an important option for patients, for families and for our community and provides necessary treatment to an Important Group of
Asian american Legal Defense and education fund. And aarti kohli, Research Fellow at uc berkeley. Aarti, were going to begin with you because these are all proposals right now. Really any overhaul to our immigration system is going to have a big repercussion here in california. Can you tell us what that would be . Of course. Were the state with the largest number of immigrants. We have 2. 5 million undocumented immigrants and weve got a third of our registered voters are lawful immigrants. So any way you cut it, its going to have a huge impact. Some of the and theres a lot in here for everyone. Employers, students who came here at a young age. Theyre called dreamers. Agricultural workers. Some of the things that people may not be aware of, in the president s proposal, lgbt families will be able to sponsor their family members. And thats from the president s proposal but not in the socalled gang of eight. Its not in the gang of eight proposal. But i think one of other issues for califor
Asian american Legal Defense and education fund. And aarti kohli, Research Fellow at uc berkeley. Aarti, were going to begin with you because these are all proposals right now. Really any overhaul to our immigration system is going to have a big repercussion here in california. Can you tell us what that would be . Of course. Were the state with the largest number of immigrants. We have 2. 5 million undocumented immigrants and weve got a third of our registered voters are lawful immigrants. So any way you cut it, its going to have a huge impact. Some of the and theres a lot in here for everyone. Employers, students who came here at a young age. Theyre called dreamers. Agricultural workers. Some of the things that people may not be aware of, in the president s proposal, lgbt families will be able to sponsor their family members. And thats from the president s proposal but not in the socalled gang of eight. Its not in the gang of eight proposal. But i think one of other issues for califor
Education fund. And aarti kohli, Research Fellow at uc berkeley. Aarti, were going to begin with you because these are all proposals right now. Really any overhaul to our immigration system is going to have a big repercussion here in california. Can you tell us what that would be . Of course. Were the state with the largest number of immigrants. We have 2. 5 million undocumented immigrants and weve got a third of our registered voters are lawful immigrants. So any way you cut it, its going to have a huge impact. Some of the and theres a lot in here for everyone. Employers, students who came here at a young age. Theyre called dreamers. Agricultural workers. Some of the things that people may not be aware of, in the president s proposal, lgbt families will be able to sponsor their family members. And thats from the president s proposal but not in the socalled gang of eight. Its not in the gang of eight proposal. But i think one of other issues for californians to, in terms of watching th