Why We Are Failing - Historical Perspective on California's Homeless

Since the mid 1970s, California policy makers have attempted to
address the ever-growing problem of homelessness and incarceration
of people with serious mental illness. Despite these efforts, the
numbers of people who are homeless and incarcerated with mental
illness have reached unprecedented highs. In this program, Dr. Joel
Braslow, professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and
History at UCLA, lays out why this historically informed
perspective is crucial to understanding why we have failed to solve
the fundamental problems of caring for our most vulnerable
citizens. This program is a presentation of UC Center Sacramentro.
Series: "UC Center Sacramento" [Public Affairs] [Health and
Medicine] [Show ID: 38662]