State DUTY to MODIFY PROGRAMS to bring HOUSING & Services to Scale for people with Disabilities who are institutionalized or at risk of institutionalization

Now in 2022, the CITY of Denver is trying to bring Supportive Housing & Wrap Around Services to SCALE ----  BUT where has the STATE been for the last 50 YEARS?

Well --- making INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS and INCREASES of HOUSING & ACT --- and serving a lot of people who are EASIER to SERVE --- and DUMPING the REST on the STREETS of MUNICIPALITIES and COUNTY JAILS.   

The LACK of COMPETITION in Colorado's Mental Health Center System --- has created a SOVIET-STYLE SYSTEM that is CORRUPT and has had INCENTIVES to SHORT SHRIFT the NEEDS of  PATIENTS and LOWER LEVEL WORKERS.

Further, when I've "reached out" to the Colorado Behavioral Healthcare Council that represents the Mental Health Centers ---they're NOT INVESTED ENOUGH:

• To raise this with the STATE and ask for more resources to seek NON-EMERGENCY CIVIL COMMITMENT  OR
• SEEK the RESOURCES to SERVE those HIGH NEEDS PEOPLE
  • Reducing that LEVEL of TREATMENT FAILURE that is NECESSITATING the CIVIL COMMITMENT.   ​

• they haven't seen it as their RESPONSIBLITY to implement CIVIL COMMITMENT Procedures or contact the County Attorney --- if it falls outside a 72-Hour  EMERGENCY HOLD, they're NOT DOING IT.
• It's NOT JUST --- that they need MORE RESOURCES to do it ---
  

The State Can Provide Housing and Services in Integrated Settings by  Reasonably Modifying its programs for people with disabilities who are institutionalized or at great risk of institutionalization AND could live successfully in the community with :

• Scattered Site Housing, and
• Wraparound Services such as Assertive Community Treatment for people with psychiatric disabilities