Abstract: This essay will have its focus on community-based care. Institutionalized care has been proven to be flawed and does not accommodate to those suffering with mental illnesses’ needs. Community based care is less costly, more humane and it focuses on social interactions and engagement as an effort to rehabilitate the mentally ill back into society. This paper will focus on different methods and strategies that have been trialed that have been proved to be more effective than mainstream mental health care and will suggest different methods that can be used to improve treatment in the…