States started shedding psychiatric beds, and those that are available are increasingly reserved for criminal defendants, the Treatment Advocacy Center in Virginia reported. Kennedy wanted to replace state asylums with federal community clinics, but the transition never happened. Governments at all levels have been disinvesting in mental health for decades. “We cannot continue to treat people with mental health issues by locking them in a cage,” he said in a statement. On Friday, Alameda County deputy public defender Jeff Chorney said Chaumette is receiving care for his illness and that all charges should be dropped. He didn’t appear at arraignment hearings the following month in a separate case in which he allegedly spat at an officer in March while being taken to a county-run psychiatric hospital on an involuntary hold. He has no cellphone, and his family did not know where he was. Newsom appeared unharmed and joked about the incident.Ĭhaumette was booked into jail and released within a day. Newsom, 53, was in downtown Oakland to promote small businesses when he was “approached by an aggressive individual,” said Fran Clader, spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol, which provides security for the governor. The June encounter between the governor and Chaumette was brief. “Mental health is a family issue,” she said. Suzette Chaumette debated talking to The Associated Press about a private pain that spilled into public view only after a chance encounter with the state’s top elected official. They’re mad about all the encampments and people on the streets because they don’t understand what it takes to deal with this other than to clear them out,” said Margot Dashiell, vice president of the East Bay chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Medicaid, for example, will not pay for treatment in “institutions for mental disease” that have more than 16 beds. People with brain disorders need a range of living situations where they can “step down” from oversight as they improve.īut government reimbursement for that kind of care is low to nonexistent, he says. Webster, director of Hope Street Coalition. There aren’t enough places for people like Suzette’s brother, Serge Chaumette, who likely require long-term clinical care, says Paul C.
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An estimated 37,000 people pinball between nonprofits and public agencies, cycling through ERs, jails and the streets, sometimes for decades, with no one monitoring their overall care in a fractured system that nobody entirely knows how to fix. In California, a quarter of the 161,000 people experiencing homelessness also have a severe mental illness. He’s got great intentions and really would take the help if he was in the right place.” “I never thought he would be that guy, but he is that guy,” she said, crying. Authorities called the 54-year-old man “aggressive.” It was the first time she had seen him in years.
In June, she saw him on the local news, lying on the ground and under arrest for allegedly throwing a water bottle at California Gov. Over the decades, he struggled with bipolar disorder, cycling in and out of hospitals and halfway homes and into homelessness. (AP) - The big brother Suzette Chaumette remembers was witty and kind, an aspiring historian at the University of California, Berkeley whose promise was derailed by mental illness.
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