{"id":273,"date":"2010-05-12T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=273"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:09","slug":"illinois-reaches-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-mentally-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/12\/illinois-reaches-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-mentally-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois reaches settlement in lawsuit over mentally ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (<a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/news\/settlement-reached-in-lawsuit-over-mentally-ill\">and  other media<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0on March 15, 2010 printed an Associated Press article saying,  &#8220;Illinois must help thousands of residents move out of large mental institutions  and provide them support services as part of a settlement expected to be filed  today in a class-action lawsuit. The  agreement, hailed as a landmark by advocates for the mentally ill, gives the  state five years to help residents make the transition to apartments and small  homes, a process to be overseen by a court-appointed monitor. &#8230; The lawsuit,  filed in 2005 by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups, claims  Illinois violates the civil rights of 4,500 mentally ill people living in  &#8216;institutions for mental disease&#8230;'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The settlement affects people living in &#8220;institutions for mental disease&#8221;  who could live in the community with services to help them manage their  lives.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/about-us\/declaration-of-human-rights\/\">Mental  Health Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois will move thousands out of mental institutions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/12\/illinois-reaches-settlement-in-lawsuit-over-mentally-ill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-4p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}