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FIFAFanboy2023 t1_j8s5kff wrote

Reply to comment by Rosseaux in Zoning Change to Fight Homelessness by Acceptable-Poem-6219

De-institutionalizing was the best and worst thing ever done in the mental health world. The new DMH treatment model (ACCS) could work wonders for people, except it's underfunded and understaffed and the people who utilize it refuse to ever discharge despite it being the intended purpose of it. Even the people who work for the agencies that provide this treatment plan don't want to work on discharging people, so the ones who don't have help cant get help.

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poutine-pal t1_j8tt9jw wrote

ACCS isn’t great. The licensure requirements pushed a lot of very qualified managers and supervisors out of their jobs and put clinical staff in charge of the day-to-day crap of managing budgets and staff, more than actual providing therapy. Any LICSW or LMHC worth their salt seems to want to get out of ACCS asap.

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FIFAFanboy2023 t1_j8wnjv7 wrote

That's not the ACCS specific licensure though, that's just how human services works in general now. The powers that be, whether its governmental, administrative or a certifying agency, believe that because someone has a Masters degree in a psychology related field that they should be the one running the teams. I feel that we're on the same page with our comments, I just disagree that its the licensure specifically getting in the way.

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