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Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge
| July / August 2008 Issue | healthcarejournalbr.com
or the past 22 months, Capital Area Human Services District (CAHSD)
has taken the leadership role toward the development and implementa-
tion of functional community-based alternatives to the use of the emer-
gency department and hospitalization for people experiencing behavioral
health crisis. CAHSD is the regional quasi-governmental agency respon-
sible for the Department of Health and Hospitals' community-based men-
tal health, addictive disorders, and development disabilities services to
Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee,
West Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana Parishes.
by: Jan M. Kasofsky, PhD, Executive Director, Capital Area Human Services District
1570:
Felix Platter of
Switzerland notes different
kinds of mental illness.
1586:
First book in English on
mental illness,
Treatise on
Melancholy
, is published by
Timothie Bright.
1600:
Little distinction made
between the mentally ill, the
handicapped, and the home-
less–equal mistreatment for all.