HomeMy WebLinkAbout04.28.20 Email from George Deeds -Assisted Outpatient Treatment aka Lauras law
From:Bennett, Robin
To:Snyder, Ashley
Cc:Schuman, Amy;McCracken, Shari
Subject:BOS correspondence
Date:Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:56:45 AM
Attachments:Assisted Outpatient Treatment aka Lauras law.msg
Please see the attached e-letter from George Deeds to the BOS and Scott
Kennelly, et al.
Thank you,
Executive Assistant
Office: 530-762-2186 Cell: 530-990-2678
Email: rbennett@buttecounty.net Email: dteeter@buttecounty.net
Supervisor Doug Teeter, District 5
Butte County Board of Supervisors
6585 Clark Rd, Suite 200
Paradise, CA 95969
From:George Deeds
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Subject:Assisted Outpatient Treatment aka Lauras law
Date:Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:03:21 AM
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Hello Counselors
Thank you for your leadership during these unprecedented times Wow eh?
I am hoping Butte Behavioral Health received the grant money they applied for. Thanks, Scott
for getting that done and setting up the presentation in Oroville.
Thank you Oroville Citycouncil for supporting Lauras law
This outbreak of a pandemic disease had to take the center stage as it should, however,
my daughter has just recently come out of the mental health system again. She is doing well
with this last set of meds. Thing is right when she came out she didn't want to take her meds
and then she decided she wanted to and this is where we are at today.
I had planned to go to the Board of Supervisors and the Paradise City counsel and speak,
however...
Meanwhile, families like mine are still fearing for our loved ones.
We don't want to have our loved ones get in trouble with law enforcement to get help in this
county. Our loved ones are mentally ill and had they been in there sensible minds they would
have never done anything to get in trouble and have a count against them in our court systems.
Yet with this idea that court order through those means does help doesn't mean it helps the
families who watched their loved ones go through the court system then have the help they
need?
Isn't this putting the cart before the Horse?
Jan 22 of this year there was a bill introduced to get Laura's law passed statewide and counties
can opt out. Opposite of what we have today.
So I believe we all are on the right track to get a team of people to assist us to care for our
loved ones at home.
Soon as you all declare we can go back to the County and City counselsI will be attending
this and giving detailed information of what my family had to experience this go around. The
system was going to drop my kid off at the Jesus center?!!!! Yeah...
I still play myguitar down the streets of Chico and Isee what is happening in our beautiful
town and my kid didn't have to havetheoption of being on the streets. Thatsjust how this
time went.
Our family had been on a ten-year journey with the system as it is. And to be constantly
dealing with this HUH? thing.In a system that mistakes have been made. People going through
the court system when they had no criminalrecord really?
We, families like mine in this county still need the counties help with options instead of tying
our money and hands up in this current system at Butte Behavioral Health
For people like myself, it's hard to imagine that people don't know other people who have to
watch their loved ones suffer more than they are.
No One here I believe wants this for anyone so please let's get this passed in this county. So
we can encourage other counties around us and being the leaders of maybe setting up a local
hospital so our county doesn'thave to pay other enterprises because in the end out loved ones
come back to our county and Ironically enough that's why there was the Jesus center option as
opposed to bringing my kid home
thank you all for what you are doing in this time of crisis
Lauras Law
Because it works
Help keep loved ones safe and at Home
George Deeds
530-566-4004