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Fact Sheet

KENDRA'S LAW AT WORK

As of March 1, 2005, 3908 assisted outpatient treatment orders - each of which by law must provide for either assertive community treatment teams or intensive case management - had been issued under Kendra's Law. 

Kendra’s Law also resulted in dramatic reductions in the incidence of harmful behaviors for AOT recipients at six months in AOT as compared to a similar period of time prior to the court order:

• 55 percent fewer recipients engaged in suicide attempts or physical harm to self;

• 49 percent fewer abused alcohol;

• 48 percent fewer abused drugs;

• 47 percent fewer physically harmed others;

• 46 percent fewer damaged or destroyed property; and

• 43 percent fewer threatened physical harm to others.