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In our society, mental health illnesses is often stigmatized due to negative depictions in the media and social beliefs. Thus, participants that often experience mental health illnesses may become isolated and harmful as they are unable to overcome their issues that are related to disorders. Moreover, policies have often unfairly marginalized participants with mental health illnesses because of the lack of support and appropriate services offered to assist them. California has been attempting to progressively assist participant with mental illnesses and reduce social ills in communities. Since the beginnings of deregulation of mental health institutions, many participants were left to support themselves during their difficult time. If participants were fortunate to have the support system to assist them, they may have been able to avoid incarceration and homelessness. Unfortunately, many participants were left to support themselves and often would experience social ills that involved incarceration, hospital re-admissions and substance abuse. Participants were able to seek counseling services for mental health illnesses if they had to means to afford the care. Unfortunately, mental health services were mostly offered for participants that were perceived with severe mental health illnesses, as participants that did not meet the eligibility criteria were unable to seeking assistance. Thus, participants with mental health illnesses that were not perceived with severe mental health illnesses, may often wait until their issue would exacerbate into a severe mental health illness. Because of these reoccurring themes of mental health issues, Proposition 63 was implemented after the success of mental health pilot programs that were perceiv...

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... to participants with mental health illnesses who were perceived as deserving to receive services due to their condition.
The implementation of California’s realignment of mental health services showed positive results for participants with severe mental health illnesses. Before realignment, participants with severe mental health illnesses receiving mental health services was declining at a rate of 1.5 percent and the costs were increasing at a rate of 5.3 percent yearly (Abrams, 2011). After the first year of realignment, an increase of 6.5 percent of participants with severe mental health illnesses were enrolling and receiving mental health services, and the costs of mental health services were being reduced by 3.3 percent within the first three years (Abrams, 2011). Hence, California’s mental health realignment proved to be showing positive results, as many