institutionalization

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MOCA’s permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art’s full-scale institutionalization.

From Los Angeles Times

In the wake of the hearings, in July 1957, Republican Gov. Goodwin Knight signed the Short-Doyle Act, providing $850,000 to create the clinics to divert patients from institutionalization.

From Los Angeles Times

The third piece of the Cicero platform is to expand civil commitment laws, which permit the involuntary hospitalization or institutionalization of people with mental illnesses.

From Slate

On Sunday, several lawmakers from Yoon’s conservative People Power Party attended a rally held by Jeon Kwang-hoon, an ultraconservative pastor who has stirred controversy for demonizing Muslims and advocating the institutionalization of gay people.

From Los Angeles Times

Whereas Newsom has sought to expand community-based treatment, Trump has promised a return to institutionalization and suggested that homeless people and those with severe behavioral health conditions be moved to “large parcels of inexpensive land.”

From Los Angeles Times