Maryland Needs Mental Hospital Diversionary Respites That are Staffed by Certified Peer Recovery Specialists.
From criminalization of mental illness to Mental Hospital Diversionary Respites. (An article that was not published in Baltimore Sun.) Almost 55 years had passed since President John F. Kennedy signed Community Mental Health Act into a law. This act provided funding to open 1500 Community Mental Health Centers and allowed the states to close many of the large mental institutions where people with serious mental health problems were warehoused. This Act also lead to adoption of Medicaid in...