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34 Dev. Mental Health L. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/dvmnhlt34 and id is 1 raw text is: The Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy - The University of Virginia Volume 34, Issue 1 April 2015 In This Issue: I. Mental Health Law and Services Reforms in the 2015 Virginia General Assembly [p. 1] II. Feature Article: Mental Health Crises and Hospital Emergency Departments [p. 6] III. Case Law Developments [p. 17] Supreme Court Round-Up [p. 17] Virginia and the Fourth Circuit [p. 22] Treatment of Mentally Ill Individuals in Custodial Settings [p. 26] Other Cases [p. 29] I. Mental Health Law and Services Reforms in the 2015 Virginia General Assembly The 2015 Virginia General Assembly session included statutory reforms that supplemented or clarified some of the significant reforms of 2014 regarding the government's response to individuals in mental health crisis. It also substantially changed the criteria for psychiatrically hospitalizing children 14 years of age and older over the minor's objection. The General Assembly approved some of the funding for outpatient and related services for persons with serious mental illness proposed by Virginia Governor McAuliffe as part of his Governor's Access Plan (GAP) initiative, and funding for several community-based mental health services recommended by the Governor's Task Force on Improving Mental Health Services and Crisis Response. Those actions are nicely summarized in a PowerPoint presentation made by Mr. Joe Flores, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, at the final meeting of the Governor's Task Force on Improving Mental Health Services and Crisis Response, held on March 23, 2015 (and which can be found here on the Virginia 1

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