<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California&#8217;s</a> new court-ordered treatment program goes into effect next week, a significant attempt by the state to get a handle on California&#8217;s addiction, mental illness, and homelessness crises.</p>
<p>The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act program <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows</a> families of adults suffering from a serious untreated psychotic disorder to file a petition in civil court for court-ordered voluntary treatment. Clinicians, first responders, and others can also file a petition.</p>
<p>If the petition is approved, a judge can order a year-long care plan, which can be renewed for a second year. The person will be connected with a treatment team, as well as a housing plan.</p>
<p>&#8220;Although homelessness has many faces in California, among the most tragic is the face of the sickest who suffer from treatable mental health conditions,&#8221; the California Health and Human Services Agency <a href="https://www.chhs.ca.gov/care-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> on its website.</p>
<p>The program targets the most severely mentally ill among California&#8217;s vast homeless population, many of whom also have substance abuse issues. It <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/californias-care-court-program-tackle-mental-illness-starts/story?id=103461370#:~:text=Under%20CARE%20%2D%2D%20which%20stands,psychotic%20disorder%2C%20such%20as%20schizophrenia." target="_blank" rel="noopener">does not apply</a> to mental illnesses like anxiety disorders, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, the court can order medication, but program participants cannot be forced to take it.</p>
<p>California has about 170,000 homeless people, the biggest homeless population in the country, according to a <a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2022-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> last year from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nearly a third of the country’s homeless people live in California, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2023/06/20/california-accounts-for-nearly-one-third-of-the-nations-homeless-people/70340309007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a June statewide study from a research group at the University of California, San Francisco.</p>
<p>Some California cities have particularly dire homeless problems and have struggled to find long-term solutions to curb the problem.</p>
<p>San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness crisis for years now, and it has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rising-crime-homelessness-leave-residents-of-san-francisco-and-oakland-on-edge">are homeless</a> in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.</p>
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<p>Last week, Sacramento’s top prosecutor sued the city over its homeless encampments, accusing city officials of allowing the homeless population to become a public nuisance.</p>
<p>Under the CARE court program, a petition for treatment must also include an affidavit from a licensed mental health professional saying they <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least tried</a> to examine the person multiple times recently, or the petitioner must submit evidence the person was detained for at least two periods of intensive treatments.</p>
<p>Seven counties including San Francisco, San Diego, and Orange must launch pilot programs by October 1. The rest of California&#8217;s counties must launch their CARE Court programs by the end of next year.</p>
<p>Counties will receive state funding for the program, including for new housing units, treatment, and behavioral health services.</p>
<p>Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has touted the plan as a way to help homeless Californians get treatment instead of being incarcerated or involuntarily hospitalized.</p>
<p>“CARE Court means new hope for thousands of Californians with untreated mental health and substance abuse issues,” Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/01/governor-newsom-and-counties-begin-care-court-implementation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in December.</p>
<p>&#8220;While we watch other places in America move swiftly towards more involuntary hospitalization, in California, we’re doing it the right way – community based care, a focus on housing, and accountability for everyone involved,” the governor said.</p>
<p>The program takes effect on October 1.</p>

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