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The deinstitutionalization of mental health care in our country may have begun as a progressive social movement, but very quickly lost its way. For anyone curious about how we got to this point in our mental health and houselessness crisis, NPR's Up First Podcast recently hosted an episode shedding light on the history of deinstitutionalization for mental health patients in the 1960's and the consequences of a lack of integrative healthcare solutions to replace the role of mental hospitals. There are no easy answers, but affordable community housing access is a BIG missing piece of the puzzle today, one which agencies like ours are working hard to rectify. Listen to the episode on their website: https://lnkd.in/eihHVtA #Deinstitutionalization #MentalHealth #MentalHealthHistory #MentalHealthProfessionals #CommunityHousing #HousingIsHealthcare

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