I would like to to say based on our family's experience, it appears that mental health assistance from the state is easier to acquire being a criminal than a law abiding citizen. Our family had an elder who was suffering from depression and our family was advised by this family member's psychiatrist that the state adult mental health division would be able to help by guiding our family with what programs that were available and other resources . We found the response time from the state health division to be long. It took months for an appointment for an assessment after which we were assigned to a social worker who told us she was not used to working with seniors since almost all of her caseload were parolees.