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TO: California Treatment Advocacy Coalition
FROM: Carla Jacobs & Randall Hagar
DATE: May 30, 2000
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ONE PHONE CALL!!!

Sometime this week, the full Assembly will vote on your bill, AB1800.

PLEASE CALL YOUR ASSEMBLYMEMBER TODAY.

The message is simple: ASK ASSEMBLYMEMBER (your assemblymember's name) TO VOTE FOR AB1800 WHEN IT COMES TO THE FLOOR THIS WEEK.

Ask your representative to support the care of those who need it most.

To make sure your assemblymember gets your message in time, call the Sacramento (Capitol) number rather than the local number.

If you are given the time to give the reasons why your Assemblymember should support AB1800—here are some you might want to use.

1. AB 1800 will change our law so it no longer prevents us from helping those overcome by mental illness.

2. AB1800 will allow for supervised treatment in the community and stop the revolving door of costly hospitalizations, homelessness, jailings and violence.

3. AB1800 allows for early interventions that will cause the more efficient use of California’s mental health resources.

This call could not be more important. Before we were all trying to influence a handful of legislators. Now we must convince the entire Assembly that AB1800 must pass.