About Implementation

The Los Angeles AB 1421 pilot program has been successfully helping some of that county’s people in crisis because of a severe mental illness, but Laura’s Law has not yet been implemented anywhere else in the state.

You can change that in your county.

The following resources are part of an implementation toolkit prepared by Mark Gale and members of CTAC to help you implement Laura's Law in your county.

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Implementing Laura’s Law

• Department of Mental Health requirements for implementation

            This letter from the Department of Mental Health provides a list of statutory requirements for implementing Laura’s Law

• FAQ's of implementing Laura's Law

            What are the steps to implementation? What services must be available in my county? What funding is needed?

• Nevada's County's experience in working to implement Laura's Law
  A detailed outline from a member of NAMI -Nevada County about what Nevada County did to implement Laura's Law

• "Cookbook" handout at the Laura's Law implementation workshop at the California NAMI conference
  A detailed account of what is needed to implement Laura's Law in your county

About Laura's Law

• Laura’s Law (AB 1421) fact sheet
  General information about Laura's Law - how it helps, what it does, and who can use it

• A guide to Laura's Law
  Prepared by CTAC after the passage of the law.

• Functional outline of Laura’s Law
  A detailed account of the process of assisted outpatient committment - who can file a petition, what is involved in a treatment plan, and what happens to the patient upon release

• Chart of AOT criteria
  Flow chart of the process of assisted outpatient committment

About Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)

• General information about AOT
  A fact sheet from the Treatment Advocacy Center with data about AOT and its successes in other places

• Results from New York's Kendra's Law
  A fact sheet from the Treatment Advocacy Center with data on the first five years of New York's AOT program

• General information about anosognosia
  A fact sheet from the Treatment Advocacy Center with information on the phenomenon of lack of insight into illness

• Myths about AOT
  A fact sheet from the Treatment Advocacy Center with information on the phenomenon of lack of insight into illness