From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

An agreement between Georgia and the federal government announced this week will help move Georgians with intellectual disabilities and mental illness out of psychiatric hospitals and into community settings such as group homes.

The pact with the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the latest in a series of actions designed to force the state to move people out of institutionalized care and into the community.

If the agreement announced Tuesday is successfully implemented, Georgia, at the very least, would be compelled to significantly boost its spending on community services for individuals with mental or developmental disabilities. Those services in Georgia have consistently been criticized by mental health advocates as severely inadequate.

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