Patients and clinicians from New York and Ohio share perspectives on an involuntary mental health tool that Allegheny County may soon implement.

Assisted outpatient treatment moves involuntary psychiatric care into communities — a controversial approach among disability rights advocates.

The county Department of Human Services [ACDHS] took that step after analysis of its program for forced inpatient mental health care — known as 302 commitments — showed high rates of death, emergency ...