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Kendras Law

It is the weekend and you are so glad to be done with work for that week that you decide to go down to a local bar to meet with some friends.   You don't decide to drive so you walk down to the subway and take the subway over to the bar.   This was the scene for a woman named Kendra Webdale.   She was just standing in line waiting for the train to arrive in the station when a man named Andrew Goldstein came up to her and pushed her in front of the train as it was coming into the station.   This wasn't an act of hatred towards Kendra it was an act of mental unstableness on the part of Andrew.   Through all of this in less than a year after her death New York State decided to make a law to help protect from this happening again.   That law is called Kendra's Law.
Kendra's law can best be defined as a procedure for obtaining court orders for certain individuals with mental illness to receive and accept outpatient treatment (OMH 1).   All that that means is that these people are set up with a program coordinator who oversees them to make sure that they will not relapse again and go crazy.   These people need to have a very close relationship with their clients because if there is no trust between these two people then stuff can go wrong with the patient like they will stop taking their medication, or they might become violent or suicidal, or they might require further hospitalization.   This is a very long and drawn out process in the court system.   The courts work together with the physician that examined this person to make sure that they are doing the right thing.   There is a very long list of stuff that has to be met before you are placed on outpatient help.   This person has to meet all of these or else he is not placed on help.   This list contains eight things on it that are the basis for outside help.   The first thing is they need to be eighteen.   If the person is under eighteen then he is placed in a halfway house for a time no shorter than one year.   The second thing...