In an ideal world, this gentleman who has a son who's struggling with schitzophrenia and ricocheting between hospitalization and homelessness and incarceration. What kind of outcome does that lead to for him? It's a year, potentially multi year, commitment to making sure he gets decent health care - not just medication but comprehensive whole person care. The united states really took on this problem in the early 19 sixties under president kennedy,. He signed the comile mento health act before he was assassinated in november. With respect to mental illness, our chief aim is to get people out of state custolial institutions and back into their homes without hard si or danger