Specifically, Kevin's Law will:

• Permit people mired by treatable mental illnesses in a revolving door of homelessness, incarceration, and hospitalization to receive timely treatment and attain recovery.
• Safeguard the public, by allowing families, caregivers, and mental health professionals to intervene and secure needed treatment for individuals incapacitated by mental illness before they become a danger to themselves or others (Until passage of Kevin’s Law, Michigan law authorized interventions only when there was an actual danger).
• Allow Michigan courts to order intensive outpatient mental health care for the small percentage of individuals with mental illness who are either the most in need of help or the greatest risk to the public.
• Authorize initial assisted outpatient treatment orders of up to 180 days and renewals of up to one year.
• Provide those under orders with supervised and intensive treatment in the community until they are again capable of maintaining their own psychiatric care.
• Ensure that those under assisted outpatient treatment orders maintain treatment, both by insisting on compliance with the order and through the greater opportunity to detect any deterioration of the individual's condition afforded by the increased contact with the mental health system.