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...placed three of his graduate students in three different nonprofits: a meal program, a drop-in center, and a housing service for domestic violence victims. Ebrahim said he focused his work on homelessness because it raised unique problems, including a highly mobile client population and an array of mental health and substance abuse issues. “These factors make it hard to measure short-term outputs and long-term outcomes, which makes it all the more intriguing and important,” he said. From the data he gathered, Ebrahim hypothesized that organizational learning is more likely to occur...
...Some of that confusion has been cleared up in reaction to Virginia Tech. In Virginia, Governor Tim Kaine signed a law on April 9 that will require courts to forward information about all involuntary mental health commitments to the state's central criminal records database. New laws will also broaden the standard Virginia uses to commit people against their will and increase the monitoring of those receiving outpatient care (as Cho was supposed to do but didn't). And Virginia also now requires that universities notify parents if a dependent child receives treatment at a campus counseling center. "I think...
...also worth remembering that the vast majority of violent crimes - some estimates say 95% - are committed by people who are not technically mentally ill. So Virginia Tech was not typical, in this regard, and sharing mental health data is not a comprehensive solution...
...Nationwide, about 10 more states, including Illinois, have started reporting mental health information to the federal database since the Virginia Tech tragedy - bringing the total to 32. Other states are considering laws to improve their reporting, but many of those bills are not expected to pass into law. For now, in other words, 18 states still would not report someone like Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, to the federal database...
...Meanwhile, even in states that do share mental health data, people can still buy guns without anyone checking the database at all. Under current federal law, unlicensed gun dealers at gun shows, for example, do not need to do a background check before they sell a weapon...