AS PRESIDENT of the Queens County Women’s Bar Association and as associate attorney for Mental Hygiene Legal Service, Appellate Division, Second Department, I speak to many people about our legal system. As an attorney who represents the mentally ill and the disabled, I visit locked psychiatric units, and counsel them at administrative and court hearings. I meet their families, friends, doctors and support staff, as well as judicial personnel, concerning their care and treatment. Mental Hygiene Legal Service represents people who are inpatients in psychiatric units throughout New York State hospitals.
I also handle all the outpatient Kendra’s Law cases under �9.60 of the Mental Hygiene Law for Queens County. Kendra’s Law was developed by the New York State Legislature to help people who are non-compliant with treatment and medication. The Assisted Out Patient Treatment Program, through court order or voluntary agreement, assists participants in becoming compliant with treatment and medication, so that they can live in the community without being hospitalized. As a direct result of this new law, many mental health patients spend a considerable amount of time in court.
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