Give Your Input on Humboldt County Mental Health Services by Taking This Survey
Press release from the County of Humboldt’s Department of Health and Human Services:
Community residents are invited to take a survey to provide input on local mental health services and what new and innovative ideas they think should be included in Humboldt County’s Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) 2020-2023 three-year plan.
The new plan will lay out MHSA-funded programs and expenditures during that time. The survey is part of a larger community planning process that will include meetings throughout the county.
In 2004, California voters approved Proposition 63, known as the MHSA, which placed a 1 percent tax on personal incomes in excess of $1 million. That funding is used to develop and support local mental health programs for children, youth, adults and older adults.
For information about upcoming meetings and the planning process, email [email protected] or call 707-441-3770 with your name and contact information.
Go to https://forms.gle/A8nZZq46otS3CGgZA to fill out the survey or email the above address for a copy.
Community residents are invited to take a survey to provide input on local mental health services and what new and innovative ideas they think should be included in Humboldt County’s Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) 2020-2023 three-year plan.
Join the discussion! For rules visit: https://kymkemp.com/commenting-rules
Comments system how-to: https://wpdiscuz.com/community/postid/10599/
What’s going wrong with society that we are producing so many mentally deficient individuals?
Treat the cause, not the affect.
I wonder that myself. Growing up there was one “crazy” lady in the neighborhood, now there are a dozen or more, men, women, children, all taking up taxpayer dollars for treatment (drugs, drink, mental disorders) As an old lady I’m thinking its the breakdown of the nuclear family, I grew up with both parents in a stable (poor, but we knew how to survive) and extended family of uncles, aunts, cousins. How many of the mentally ill grew up in a stable environment, who (gasp, the shock) know who their male parent is/was, and who their whole/half siblings are. I would guess not many. So having stated my thoughts on the issue, let the hate begin….
No hate here AND while “Video killed the radio star” mobility killed the family nuclear. You all knew the crazy lady and I bet she may have gotten some care because she was known by many? Or did she just suffer in silence? Seriously curious if anyone cared for her. I grew up without stability so I don’t know if people actually took care of their neighbors a bit better before mobility was so rampant. Just cause your family was apparently OK doesn’t mean you knew everyone else’s business. Being poor wasn’t always so dangerous, least not for while folk in the 50s and 60s.
But then ya got to ask, why did mobility become so rampant? Many folks wanted to run away from home; hell America was founded by nothing but runaways. Abroad royalty and religion held all the power and in the “New World” families hid many secrets: men who were “Shell shocked” from war, incest, mental illness all kept behind closed doors. Mental hospitals held many more behind shuttered windows and doors. Mobility added to isolation more than it did inclusion, initially. Songs like “Elenor Rigby” “Help!” and “Save Me” and “Under Pressure” sang the unspoken. Now belonging is changing shape and form and becoming global. Change is hard.
Maybe it is time for our species to take better care of one another as one family. Maybe family was never enough (religion tried to tell us that and now science is saying so; when will we ever learn?).
I suspect that if drug abuse and its resulting dementia were eliminated, there are fewer mentally ill people as treatment has become better. Actually around that time drug treatment became pissibl. In the days before the Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act , people were involuntarily removed and sent to mental institutions. People who a “peculiar” family member hid it. So many more conditions are formalized in the DISM to facilitate billing whereas before they were not labelled “mentally ill.”
There is no magical cause for mental illness that can be fixed so easily. It is not caused by poverty, social friction, poor education or any of the usual suspects. In fact the inability to cope with stress is innate and those “causes” are frequently symptoms but they can create stress that exacerbates it.
“Given that levels of happiness are so high in Denmark, it is reasonable to assume that Danes also enjoy good mental health. But a study published this month by the American Medical Association tells a very different story – one that demonstrates just how common mental health problems are, regardless of where people happen to live.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/know-your-mind/201405/mental-illness-in-the-happiest-nation-earth
The Danish study apparently, from the blog you linked to, found roughly 35% of Danes in a LIFETIME seek help for mental health issues whereas in US that percentage seek mental health help in a YEAR.
Moreover due to the Danes comprehensive accessible care, no doubt many more seek help there whereas in the US with health care so inconsistently available and shoddily for most even where it exists many here cannot or do not bother.
The about half the US population is reported to have one diagnosable mental health condition in their lifetime. Only 40% of those people are treated for it- that is about 20%. That is way less that the Danish reports of 35%.
Having a mental condition, seeking help for a mental condition and having a serious mental condition requiring treatment are not the same things. The equivalent status of Americans to the Danish study in the article would be the number of Americans requiring treatment and that is 20% or less in a lifetime. The article does not give the equivalent of yearly figures for Danish people saying they experience an issue so you can’t say that Americans experience more.
It only addresses those who got treated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Comorbidity_Survey
We are all crazy
Where is the external, independent entity that oversees the County. The County is surveying its own work? There needs to be citizen and professional review groups with power that are independent of The County.