Thank you. [ applause ]. I know we are going to be this hearing and discussing a lot more about Outpatient Mental Health treatment but lets take a moment to hear from danny mcclaegen from san diego. Tell us about the program. Is it working . Let me tell you what the program is about. Its a program where people are convicted for drink in public 5 or more times or arrested and held and if they are convicted for the crime in public. If you see it like a drug court model, thats how it works. So if we want to talk about is it successful, we can throw out a number of definitions for that. We know that drunk in public arrest are down 77 percent in san diego. Thats good for you and we can talk about Health Care Cost have been reduced by 73,000 a month on health care for people picked up by paramedics and drunk in public and hospitals. I think thats good. I know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the Program Complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and hous
Illness and arent willing to take their medication, it just does not work. Too many of our mentally ill end up on the streets and in the criminal justice system. These are pictures of my son and another mothers son. We wanted to share with you so you can have an insight to our lives and our sons lives. My son could have never harmed anybody. The other son has lived on the streets for four years now. This mom told me when he was firstborn how beautiful he was. He was a 4. 0 student, he was extremely bright and invited to all the top schools. He now lives in city parks and on the street. Both of our families tried desperately to help our sons to try to prevent this. We could not. Our son first became ill after high school. He was supposed to go to college like many other peoples kids an then he had his first psychotic break. We could not get any help for him. When a person is left to decompensate to the point where they can not eat because they fear their food is poison or when they cant
73,000 a month on health care for people picked up by paramedics and drunk in public and hospitals. I think thats good. I know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the Program Complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and housed at the end of the program. We think thats good. And there are serial neeb rate programs across the united states. We have a call from ireland and alaska which begs the question how can you be homeless in alaska . But there are. If i were brought to a conference for the police, wed have a very different point of view. If i was at a conference for the District Attorney we might have a different point of view. The nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. The police are going to arrest these. The attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. They are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do it mora
A process under the act that is set up to protect peoples civil rights. One of the things in 1421 that hasnt been i am mplemented in the counties, the real issues as a matter of course is what is the process for hospitalization under the enforcement. Under this program, if someone misses a doctors appointment, they can call the police to take them to the upon the hospital for an evaluation. You might say there is something about that. But whe we see peoples interaction for service, when they see police and someone upfront, as a criminal or someone to be weary of or suspicious of or to the fact of a lesser member of society, when people have that experience, and it doesnt matter how many psychotic symptoms they have, they push back. Thats our human nature. What i have seen in new york. Thats very relevant. Other ill leave with you this. I was a social worker working in new york, i was very enthusiastic about my job in the Homeless Outreach program and our program was specifically to rea
Is to make sure those people that need help get the help they want. Our clients are offered treatment and across the board every Single Person arrested for that are offered services an they all get help. Everyone of them gets help. And my outcomes show that they benefit from that. Thank you. [ applause ] you were a substance treatment expert for the medical center. I understand there is some promising new treatments about alcohol that maybe on the horizon. Tell us about that. As far as treatment for alcoholism, the first things to consider is how somebody gets into treatment in the first place. There is 4 ls, liver, livelihood, lover or the law. Those 4 things. Liver, livelihood, lover and law. Within those ls is when somebody shows up in my door, someone suffering, a Family Member suffering who brings somebody in. When it company ms to treat we know there is different types of treatment, there is Evidence Base treatment. There is good evidence for it, we do it. There is evidence free