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I would welcome a well run secure home in my neighborhood. A level of quality supervision would need to be assured. I believe that people are happier, less stressed and safer when they are living in an environment of respect, choices and freedoms. Of course individuals who have acted in a way that has resulted in serious harm to others will have their choices and freedom limited (like a secured home and community supervision).
We hear from our mass media system of all of terrible cases of victimization but rarely of the successes of those who have recovered from mental illness. That creates a "normal" of fear in all of us. Ironically, by shutting these people out (in institutions, not allowing a less restrictive, but secure place to live) we are perpetuating the disfunction, fear and mental illness of our people and our society.

-Mike Patton, Rehab Therapist at OSH

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