Left to right: Judy Fitzgerald, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, Jewell Gooding, executive director of Mental Health America of Georgia, Cynthia Wainscott, a member of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Regional Advisory Council, and Susan Goico, staff attorney with the Disability Integration Project at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, during a panel discussion at the Carter Center. Photo credit: Carter Center
At a recent panel centered around the U.S. Department of Justice’s 2010 landmark settlement with Georgia over the care of its developmentally disabled citizens, mental health advocates said the state will likely miss the agreement's June 30 compliance deadline. But that doesn't mean that Georgia hasn't made big strides in integrating these individuals into their communities, the panelists explained.
May 14, 2018 at 05:42 PM
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June 30 is the deadline for Georgia to remove developmentally disabled adults from state mental hospitals, but it appears the process will likely continue beyond the end of next month.
That’s the message that Susan Walker Goico, director of the Disability Integration Project at Atlanta Legal Aid Society, and other mental health public officials and advocates shared Friday during an event at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
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