I am shocked, outraged and deeply saddened by “patient dumping” which is a process of dropping off the mentally ill from a hospital to a homeless shelter without proper warning or guidance. As mental health clinics are closing more and more due to budget cuts, the mentally ill are left out in the cold. They are not getting the help they need and are being tossed aside like trash. It was reported on KCRA.com how a woman with a mental capacity of a three year old from Yolo County was dropped off by a taxi in the middle of the night at Loaves and Fishes in Sacramento County. She was not found until the next day because the facility was closed overnight. Who sends a mentally ill patient out

Today with the economy failing and people losing jobs, mental health issues are rising at an alarming rate. What I don’t understand is how there can be budget cuts in mental health, especially now and in California. Proposition 1E (which did not pass) proposed to cut mental health care in Sacramento County by $20.5 million, which would have affected several thousand people who depend on mental health services in Sacramento. However, my mental health clinic still cut over 1,000 people from receiving mental health care even though Californians voted no on Prop 1E, (which would redirect funds allocated for mental health from Prop 63 back in 2004 to the general fund for two years). This did