I'm sick and tired of seeing people leave here and return. Coalition case worker Terry Paul, City of Dallas psychiatric nurse Kay Pederson and two volunteer psychiatrists are among the few such groups in the nation to bring services to the homeless. In making contact with the homeless mentally ill, Paul walks a road downtown that others rarely tread. Ordinary people walk the sidewalks, and homeless the alleys and parking lots. We don't see that much of each other.
Success comes in handfuls.
She had been a lady sitting in a corner in a shelter afraid to talk to people. The solution, several officials said, lies in providing a combination of shelter, psychiatric services and human care. A ruling by U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders on Oct. 21 held that community mental health centers have an obligation to make a good faith effort to provide services to psychiatric patients after their release from a mental institution. It's going to have to become a rights issue and people are going to choose up for and against it.