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Australia has started a program called Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative. This helps those with mental illnesses stay out of the hospitals and remain valuable members of their communities. The program has had major successes, and its participants are healthier in many ways for it. They learn how to take care of themselves, which provides the important morale boosts that keep them out of hospitals.

This is an unconventional way of treating mental illness, but it is sometimes those unconventional methods that have the greatest impact. Rather than wiling away in hospitals, people are now able to contribute, feel valued, and most importantly, be valued.

Source: Mentally ill offered hope, not hospitals

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May 21, 2008 at 6:58 pm

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