A Felony Beef Coming Our Way, Soon

[valkyra]

Originally Posted by elghund

The law signed by Carter….and promptly repealed by Reagan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental...ms_Act_of_1980


elg…..

What benefit did Reagan see in NOT funding mental health centers? Or was money needed elsewhere?

[Missburger]

Originally Posted by offshoredrilling

no way in hell

I was thinking 70's State run



on Ron I found

I'm thinking NY did same in errr I think 70's. Maybe it was sooner
RR was still a DEM at that time
RR switch party's mmmm 1962 ????

By today’s standards if alive rr would be a dem moderate

Bill Clinton would be a republican moderate

[Rainbird4668]

Money was shifted to military industrial complex and that amazingly effective program that taught kids about drugs and where to buy them... what was it again... D.A.R.E.

[elghund]

Originally Posted by valkyra

What benefit did Reagan see in NOT funding mental health centers? Or was money needed elsewhere?

Basically, budget cutting.


https://sites.psu.edu/psy533wheeler/...omment-page-1/


elg….

[offshoredrilling]

In the 1960s, laws were changed to limit the ability of state and local officials to admit people into mental health hospitals. This lead to budget cuts in both state and federal funding for mental health programs. As a result, states across the country began closing and downsizing their psychiatric hospitals

best I can find, I keeps asking NYS and when, all I get is for all the country other than RR 1967 in CA, Late 60's and 70's most in ROC closed and few down sized a lot.

mmmm fuck up by both party's as looks Nation wide. Many becoming on the street n homeless.

[lilylivered]

The institutes were horror centers and they couldnt come up with a way to keep them open and not get sued by blood sucking lawyers. Only option was shut them down. Probably half of them were happier and better off. Get their own place or an assisted home. Others well...

[elghund]

De-institutionalism started in the mid 50’s under Eisenhower, and continued through subsequent administrations.

Carter passed the MHSA in 1980, just before leaving office. It funded support for mental health patients who were no longer in institutions.

Reagan’s repeal through Reconciliation in 1981 defunded the local organizations that were supporting the de-institutionalized mental health patients….basically hanging them out to dry.

elg…..

[lilylivered]

Sounds about right, but Im sure each state was different too

[offshoredrilling]

Originally Posted by elghund

Basically, budget cutting.


https://sites.psu.edu/psy533wheeler/...omment-page-1/


elg….

wish I could find when NYS started it, A guy I knew in the early 70's had a relation in a institution, I heard it closed. he told me his relative is somewhere homeless. His parents would look for, find. Drink down the Wild Irish Rose and walk away from his parents.

[valkyra]

Ah, thats why theres so many abandoned mental health facilities around.

[lilylivered]

Originally Posted by valkyra

Ah, thats why theres so many abandoned mental health facilities around.

yep

[Missburger]

Big space Henruetta lots of room