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SALT LAKE CITY — As a part of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office held a press conference on Tuesday to discuss what resources are available here in our community, along with how they believe they are making major strides in helping those who are suffering and decriminalizing mental health.

"I got into mental health court after being on the street of Salt Lake for a year. I had been homeless and in shelters. I was destitute. I didn’t know what I was going to do. I didn’t have family. I didn’t have friends. Everyone had pretty much shut me out of their lives," he said. Taylor Psalto from Valley Behavioral Health worked with Hamilton as one of her clients in the Mental Health Court. She supervises the jail diversion outreach team, trying to offer treatment alternatives instead of incarceration.

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