There were some great comments to counter the dinosaur-like views in the article, but even the comments were not all supportive of community living.  They did, however, provide a bit of optimism after reading the article.  Amazing this deficit thinking still occurs without an equal amount of thinking of alternatives, fully knowing that the ' isolation solution' which was an utter failure.  




On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Lawyer, Heidi (VBPD) <xxxxxx@vbpd.virginia.gov> wrote:

In case you haven’t seen this awful op ed

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/opinion/the-modern-asylum.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

 

 

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