University Advocacy Letter on Senate Bill S3766 - Mental Health

This assignment is an advocacy letter written on behalf of the mental health nursing community, expressing support for Senate Bill S3766. The bill aims to provide legal services for mental hygiene to residents in healthcare facilities, including those discharged from medical institutions or psychiatric hospitals with significant mental disorders. The letter highlights the importance of legal assistance in addressing stressors like homelessness, loss of pay, and the loss of social liberties. It emphasizes the role of advocacy in improving mental health services and the need for expanded legal support for individuals with mental health disabilities. The letter references the NYS Court of Appeals decision and the need for the bill to improve the mental health of people seeking legal support to enhance the nation's mental health of nurses and the nursing profession.

Running head: ADVOCACY LETTER
Advocacy Letter on Senate Bill S3766
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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The Honourable Kirsten Gillibrand,
Respected Kirsten,
On behalf of the mental health nursing community, I am writing to thank you for passing the
Senate Bill S3766 which deals with providing a legal service for mental hygiene to certain
residents or patients who are admitted to facilities of residential healthcare (NY State Senate
Bill S3766, 2019).
This bill gives mental wellbeing advocacy providers with the power to offer legal aid to
inmates or occupants in residential health care institutions, including nursing care homes that
have been discharged immediately from a medical institution or psychiatric hospital and have
a significant mental disorder for which they seek treatment due to their disorder.
Individuals with disabilities of mental health consistently face battles of legality in court to
look after lodging, secure a sufficient pay, and get and keep up government advantages to
which they are entitled. These battles for legality in court are stressors that can eventually
prompt weakening of emotional well-being, homelessness and hospitalization (Schulz et al.,
2015). By furnishing legal assistance to civilians, like adults with psychological wellness
inabilities, this Bill remains as a defense against emergency – loss of pay, homelessness and
loss of social liberties so they can keep up dependability inside their chosen network.
It is through individual advocacy, litigation, education in communities and coordination with
makers of policy, it is our obligation to work to address the absence of network based private
and outpatient mental well-being administrations with individuals with dysfunctional
behavior (Reisner et al., 2015). They additionally advocate both foundationally and
exclusively, to address misuse, disregard and poor conditions in offices and projects serving
individuals with psychological sickness.

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The NYS Court of Appeals, the State's most noteworthy court, decided that Mental Hygiene
Legal Services (MHLS) needs purview to speak to individuals with mental disorder who have
been admitted and restricted to nursing homes from mental health care centres and mental
emergency clinic wards in light of the fact that the Office of Mental Wellbeing does not
permit the offices. It had been accounted for that the council changed the law in 1993 to
altogether extend MHLS's purview to remember people for a scope of other in\outpatient
offices regardless of the sort of office or an individual's absence of lawful affirmation status
so as to maintain a strategic distance from the requirement for MHLS to do fight to set up a
jurisdictional hold (Perlin et al., 2015). Tragically, by a vote of 4-3, the Court of Appeals
concluded that those revisions are not adequate to bear the cost of genuinely intellectually
sick people access of defensive MHLS when in a setting not authorized by OMH.
Your expansive bill is the first step in driving change in further improving the mental health
of people seeking legal support to enhance the nation's mental health of nurses and the
nursing profession. We look forward to continuing to work with you and our colleagues
throughout our common attempt to improve population health.
Thanking you,
Student Name

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References
NY State Senate Bill S3766. NY State Senate. (2019). Retrieved 9 April 2020, from
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s3766.
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