Alaska needs options for those who are severely ill long term and do not do well in an assisted living home. These people end up in emergency rooms for self harm or safety concerns. They end up in and out of API then sent to an assisted living home or other home that is not meeting their needs. They often end up homeless and on the street and can not care for themselves. They lose benefits while in API and jail and  have no where to go. We need something in between API and the Assisted Living homes. for these people. These are very vulnerable individuals that are a part of our community. Some of these people we see wandering around Anchorage with no place to go. They are lost and we need a way to keep them safe as well as keep the rest of our community safe from their actions. My personal experience of the mother of an extremely mentally ill daughter who has been in and out of API over 40 times in her young life has been very frustrated at the lack of services for people like her.