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.
The law authorized county mental hygiene directors to receive grants that enable mentally ill individuals that are released from jail and prison or discharged from hospitals to purchase psychotropic medications for up to 90 days, while a Medicaid application is pending.