67: Addressing Mental Health Disability in Unsheltered Homelessness: Outpatient Conservatorship in Los Angeles

Psychiatric Services From Pages to Practice

Elizabeth Bromley, M.D., Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss the use of outpatient conservatorship in the effort to address mental health disability among unsheltered homeless persons in Los Angeles County, California.

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:04 Homelessness in Los Angeles County, California
• 09:04 The paper and services
• 11:39 Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) conservatorship
• 13:44 Outpatient conservatorship (OPC) pilot program
• 15:54 Skepticism
• 18:48 Beyond conservatorship: other aspects of the program
• 22:34 Initial evaluation
• 25:21 Quantitative measures
• 28:33 Coordination

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