At best, CTOs merely demonstrate more community supports are desperately needed. Better models exist and are working in other areas. We are more often victims of violence in fact. See an informatative article on the myth of violence being related to mental illness. Consider what we've found in the best research .
Some families experience mental illness of a loved one in a particular way.
But that's something the government says it wants to do something about. Only with Assertive Community Treatment teams, an expensive and elite service that few will receive. Canada's housing problem is exploding. A Clarke Institute study found that people labelled mentally ill are not losing housing in record numbers, but rather that homelessness and its effects push people to emotional distress, which is understood medically as mental illness. Other people enter emotional distress over job loss, relationship problems, accidents, and so on.