To fight the expansion of involuntary conservatorship under SB 1045, a community coalition led by Senior and Disability Action, the Mental Health Association, and the Coalition on Homelessness is looking for stories of people with mental health conditions. Conservatorship is taking away someone’s legal rights to make their own choices and determine their own treatment, based on an assessment that the person cannot take care of themselves.

Please help by providing any information that you are willing to share. You can include your name but do not have to. Please explain each answer as much as you are comfortable with. Thank you!

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* 1. Do you have a mental health condition?

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* 2. What is your zip code?

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* 3. Have you ever had trouble getting mental health services? What happened when you tried to access services?

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* 4. What do you think of conserving people with mental health conditions (taking away their legal right to determine their own treatment)?

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* 5. Have you ever been in an institution against your will? What was that like? Did it help you?

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* 6. If you were ever in an institution (voluntarily or not), were you sent out of your community?

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* 7. As a peer, have you seen other people not get the services they need? And what happened?

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* 8. The people who want to expand conservatorship say that something must be done for homeless people with mental health conditions and substance abuse. What do you think would be more effective than conserving people?

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* 9. Optional: What is your name? How can we contact you?

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