Based on my personal experience and
observations, and discussions with three
clients designated as Seriously Mentally
Ill Adults, I can report the folowing:

Humboldt County Mental Health
Adult Day Treatment Program had
seventy SMI Adults.  That program
has been reorganized.  It now serves
only 15 SMI Adults with Intensive
Day Treatment.  The remaining clients
are told that they must be enrolled in
some program, and if not, there is
“talk” about them being sent to
Crestwood.  They may NOT spend
their day in bed. and they are told
that going to the Peer Recovery Center
is a program that is acceptable to staff.

At the Adult Services sub-committee
of the HCMHB, I asked the manager
of that program how many clients
had recovered in the first three months
of operation, she replied that I was
attacking her, and that she didn’t have
to answer a question that was asked
in that manner.

Are there any state wide figures on
how many clients have recovered,
using the PRC model?

Respectfully

Tom Harkins