There are vast inadequacies on a much larger scale when it comes to consumer advocacy, especially for mental health clients, in the state of California. Providing leadership and taking a stand on this sort of issue at a local level provides a base safety net for those patients who are unable to navigate the intensely complicated realm of in-patient services. These patients are sometimes indigent, uninformed, or 'fragile', which I gather means mentally or physically compromised - and may likely have nowhere else to go, thus it is viewed as "dumping" because the public infrastructure simply does not have the means to accomodate them in the interim. Social workers do not have the ability or time to address every need of every client, and inevitably there will be collateral damage; there will be patients whose needs are not met. They are the uninsured, economically challenged citizen's without friend or family. They are our responsibility as we are stewards of the sick and poor. Give them a chance to get better, and a place to call home, and they will respond. They will become productive functional members of mainstream society if they are treated like human beings that belong in our community.