To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster â either way, you are avoiding something. The verb avert comes from Latin roots that mean to turn away from.. Averting has that sense of deflecting, turning away, or preventing something (usually bad) from happening. You might put salt on an icy sidewalk to avert accidents, or you might avert a toddler's meltdown by supplying a lollipop.
Office of Mental Health. Medication Grant Program. In August of 1999, the Governor signed Kendra's Law. This legislation provided assisted outpatient treatment for some individuals in New York's Mental Health system. Information on this section of the law is easily accessible through the OMH web page.
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