Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment Awards Matching Grant to PHLR Grantee

The Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment has awarded a matching grant to the University of Virginia team of PHLR researchers looking at the implementation of Virginia’s newly-enacted Health Care Decisions Act (HCDA) to  identify the key barriers and enabling factors that will determine the law’s ultimate impact on health outcomes, safety, and quality of life for persons with severe mental illness.

Funded by the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment seeks to elaborate a new and broader conceptual framework to encompass all forms of mandated treatment. To evaluate the role that mandated treatment may play in mental health law and policy, we are engaged in conducting new research on how frequently different types of leverage are used, how the process of applying leverage operates, and what the outcomes of leveraged treatment are–for the individual, for the mental health system, and for society.