California voters likely will see a mental health ballot measure on the March 2024 election. One would issue a $6 billion bond to create housing for people with mental illnesses.
The bond measure, totaling nearly $6.4 billion, has been touted by Newsom as a way to address California’s. It would be used to build 10,000 treatment beds and supportive housing units, a portion of which would be reserved for veterans with mental health or addiction struggles.
Newsom officials disagree with the assertion that mental health and disability advocates were misled. Discussions with county behavioral health officials, first responders, and family members of people with severe mental illness led to the changes, Newsom spokesperson Brandon Richards said. Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, a Democrat from Thousand Oaks, who is carrying the measure did not respond to comment by deadline.If legislators and voters approve the bond, the amendments do not mean all of the money would be used on locked treatment facilities, but it does allow for that investment., at least the 16 locked facilities have been funded from the 2021 law that set aside money for behavioral health beds.
“We are exposing people to what is a very traumatic experience of having your agency taken away and not providing effective programming,” said Kiran Savage-Sangwan, executive director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network. “People are not progressing with their recovery when it’s against their will.”
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