Letters: Fairview Developmental Center offers needed mental health space

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we have a crisis in Orange County.
We have lost 65 percent of the psychiatric beds in our hospitals since 1995 while the population has grown by 35 percent.
The Orange County Grand Jury has issued three reports regarding the impact of mental illness on homelessness and incarceration in the past two years that illustrate the toll and costs of using our jails and emergency rooms as mental health warehouses.
Mental illness also impacts our opioid crisis. Man