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Mental Health Information

HereSince1628

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2. If you have a link that shows Tsemberis wrong

Reply to valerief (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 06:40 PM

Oct 2014

please post it.

“That seems extraordinarily high to me,” said Sam Tsemberis, a former director of New York City’s involuntary hospitalization program for homeless and dangerous people, now the chief executive of Pathways to Housing, which provides housing to the mentally ill.

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Under compulsion NY Mental Health Professionals add 34,500 to Div. Criminal Justice Database [View all] HereSince1628 Oct 2014 OP

34,500 of 15,411,151 (age 18+) = less than 1/4 percent. valerief Oct 2014 #1

If you have a link that shows Tsemberis wrong HereSince1628 Oct 2014 #2

He considers less than a quarter percent high. Doesn't seem high to me. valerief Oct 2014 #3

So it's based on your opinion HereSince1628 Oct 2014 #4

Same as his. valerief Oct 2014 #5

You are a former director of NY city's involuntary hospitalization program? HereSince1628 Oct 2014 #6

go away? mopinko Oct 2014 #7