Allegheny County Preparing to Start Involuntary Outpatient Mental Health Treatment

Nev Jones, an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Pitt, said she was kept in the dark by county officials, despite repeatedly offering them her expertise on psychosis interventions after she heard they were considering AOT last year. "The logic of how they go from, ‘People don’t do well in our county after they’re involuntarily hospitalized’ to ‘What we need is AOT,’ is just shocking to me,” said Jones. Read more in Public Source.