2008 Legislative Campaign

Making Laura’s Law Available Throughout California

The goal for 2008 of the California Treatment Advocacy Coalition (CTAC) is to make assisted outpatient treatment available in all Californian counties to help those who are rendered incapable of accessing obviously needed treatment by the symptoms of a severe mental illness like schizophrenia.  

CTAC’s members are united behind the efforts of Senator Leland Yee to remove substantial disincentives to county adoption and use of this proven treatment mechanism that were placed in Laura’s Law over the objection of that law's author, Assemblymember Helen Thomson.  CTAC has been waiting years for a champion like Senator Yee, the Assistant President pro Tempore of the Senate, to attempt to do away with these road blocks to treatment.

CTAC’s specific legislative objectives are set out in our fact sheet: Making Laura’s Law Available Throughout California.

Securing these changes would make Laura’s Law as it was intended to be.  Assisted outpatient treatment would be placed in the toolbox of each and every Californian county, ready to provide continuous, supervised community treatment for people in crisis because of severe mental illnesses.

If you would like to join the California Treatment Advocacy Coalition, please email us at savelives@lauraslaw.net.

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