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County mental‑health workers and advocates urge board to protect IOP services, create community task force
Summary
Therapists and advocacy groups told the Alameda County Board of Supervisors they fear cuts to intensive outpatient programs at Fairmont Hospital and urged the board to place a community‑led, data‑driven task force on the agenda to design alternatives to jailing people with serious mental illness.
Therapists and community advocates asked the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to protect intensive outpatient mental‑health services and to create a community‑led task force to guide system changes.
"AHS's IOP services are an essential level of care for those in this county with severe and persistent mental illness," said Laura Wall, a therapist at Alameda Health System's Fairmont Hospital intensive outpatient program, flagging an apparent overhead increase for her program that she said would make budgeting…
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