Each year, the General Assembly considers proposals to amend the delivery of mental health services in Virginia.
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Our View of the Legislature: Mandatory Outpatient Treatment – Final Report
Virginia law contains a process, other than hospitalization, by which the state can force someone with mental illness to receive treatment, known as “mandatory outpatient treatment.”
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Our View of the Legislature: Mandatory Outpatient Treatment
Virginia law contains a process, other than hospitalization, by which the state can force someone with mental illness to receive treatment, known as “mandatory outpatient treatment.”
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Our View of the Legislature: Mandatory Outpatient Treatment
Virginia law contains a process, other than hospitalization, by which the state can force someone with mental illness to receive treatment, known as “mandatory outpatient treatment.”
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Our View of the Legislature: Mental Health
The legislature has many bills before it that would make it easier for the state to force someone into mental health treatment through a process called mandatory outpatient treatment (MOT). The dLCV is especially concerned that consumer voices were not included in the work group that developed some of these proposals.