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first time mental illness was thought to be cured.
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Thomas Kirkbride advocate for the mentally ill. He became superindent of the Penn Hospital for the insane
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Begining of the contruction of the "Asylums". State mental hopitals would house the mentally ill and criminal offenders.
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Publication on insanity and treatment (including floor plan) 250 bed max facility
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New York World reporter Nellie Bly poses as a mentally ill person to become an inmate at Blackwell's Island in New York City.
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President Harry Truman signs the National Mental Health Act, calling for the establishment of the National Institute of Mental Health to conduct research into neuropsychiatric problems.
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Make California a leader in the mental health system program.
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The thrid revolution in mental health care. Shackles were melted down, it bcame the symbol of the National Mental Health Association.
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Marketed as Thorazine by Smith-Kline and French, Chlorpromazine is the first antipsychotic drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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The number of mentally ill people in public psychiatric hospitals peaks at 560,000.
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State legislature enacts the Short-Doyle Act, which provides
financial assistance for local governments to establish locally
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President John F Kennedy helped promote comprehensice community care in call to congress - Special Message
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Medi-Cal is created
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The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS) changes the law by
requiring a judicial hearing procedure prior to involuntary
hospitalization of an individual. This makes involuntary hospitalization of mentally ill people vastly more difficult. One year after the law goes into effect, the number of mentally ill people in the criminal-justice system doubles. -
Traditional Medi-Cal benefits expand to include Short-Doyle
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Legislature requires all counties to have mental health programs.
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President Jimmy Carter signs the Mental Health Systems Act, which aims to restructure the community mental-health-center program and improve services for people with chronic mental illness.
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Assembly Bill 3632 assigns county mental health departments the responsibility to provide special education students with mental health servicesguaranteed under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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The Bronzan-Mojonnier Act enacts provisions relating to the identification of the shortage of services resulting in the criminalization of people who are mentally disabled, and the provision of community support and vocational services for individuals who are homeless and mentally disabled and for seriously emotionally disturbed children.
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The Bronzan-Wright-McCorquodale Realignment Act of 1991 shifts authority from state to counties for mental health and other health programs
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More benifits and helped mental disabilies remain active in community
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California adopts the Medicaid Rehabilitation Option to expand
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California institutes Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment by providing increased state matching funds to counties. Medi-Cal Mental Health Managed Care program is implemented. Inpatient and various specialty services became the responsibility of the Mental Health Plan in each county
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Medi-Cal fee-for-service and Short-Doyle programs merge into one mental health managed care program administered by counties
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Assembly Bill 34 authorizes grants totaling $9.5 million for pilot programs in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Stanislaus Counties to provide services for severely mentally ill adults who are homeless, recently released from jail or prison, or at risk of being homeless or incarcerated in the absence of services. The program is expanded to all counties the next year.
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Assembly Bill 88 (mental health parity law) requires health plans to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of severe mental illnesses of a person of any age and for the serious emotional disturbances of a child under the same terms and conditions applied to all other covered medical conditions
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Assembly Bill 1424 modifies the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act of 1968, mandating mental health departments, law enforcement agencies, and court systems to consider a patient’s psychiatric history.
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Assemby Bill 1421, “Laura’s Law,” permits court-ordered, assisted
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confirmed states responsibility in MH system services
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Voters approve the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63), providing significant funding for mental health services based on a 1% tax on annual incomes of more than $1 million.
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help fund and expand family based services for alternative to group homes
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The US Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 requires group health insurance plans to offer coverage for mental illness and substance use disorders in no more a restrictive way than all other medical and surgical procedures covered by the plan.
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In the aftermath of the Great Recession, states are forced to cut $4.35 billion in public mental-health spending over the next three years, the largest reduction in funding since deinstitutionalization.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act include measures to expand affordable forms of health insurance coverage and identifies mental health and substance abuse as one of 10 essential areas of coverage.
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Realignment 2011 gives counties more money and more responsibility for a range of mental health, substance abuse, and criminal justice services. Assembly Bill 114 transfers responsibility and funding for educationally related mental health services from county mental health departments to county education departments.
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Legislature eliminates the Department of Mental Health, creates the Department of State Hospitals, and transitions responsibility for managing all community mental health services functions to the Department of Health Care Services.
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The Wright-McCorquodale-Bronzan Mental Health Act establishes demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of community-based, integrated service systems of care for adults with serious mental illness