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Mental Health Advocates Push For Change Of ‘Shattered System’

caption: A proposed law would allow people to petition a court to have family members involuntarily committed to a mental facility.
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A proposed law would allow people to petition a court to have family members involuntarily committed to a mental facility.
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Steve Scher talks with mental health advocate Sandi Ando about a proposed law that would allow people to petition a court to have a family member committed against his or her will.

Ando is public policy chair for Washington's chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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