Testimony was given before the North Dakota Legislature’s Acute Psychiatric Treatment Committee, which will draft proposals for addressing the state’s acknowledged crisis in mental health care.
Consultants offered a raft of recommendations to improve mental health services in North Dakota, including a "dysfunction hotline" to capture complaints of the system's failings to guide improvements.
A consultant's report for a legislative committee said jails still end up taking people in mental health crisis who should be hospitalized — a situation the study compares to Third World countries.
