The State Care Acts centralized financial responsibility for the care of individuals with mental illness in state governments, shifting the burden from local communities and private institutions to the state level, ensuring more uniform and potentially improved care and facilities for those with mental illnesses.

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The State Care Acts

Question 7

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The State Care Acts:

A) centralized financial responsibility for the care of individuals with mental illness in every state government.
B) called for an expansion of neuropathology in mental hospitals.
C) called for bringing mental health services to the public in their communities.
D) were a federally funded effort to discover to what extent consumer-operated programs as an adjunct to traditional mental health services are effective in improving the outcomes of people with serious mental illness.

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