Fewer people living with psychiatric illnesses are being confined behind the high walls of psychiatric institutions as the Mental Health Act of 2002 has moved the emphasis from institutionalisation to community-based rehabilitation and care. Lungi Langa of Health-e News Service spent a morning at a residential community centre in Cape Town.

Daniel wants to grow up to be a policeman so that he can arrest his parents. He says they drink too much and they won'€™t let him leave the children'€™s home to come live with them again.

Tehillah Spread Your Wings Rehabilitation has been tackling substance abuse in the Elsies River since 2003. Lungi Langa spent a day at the facility and spoke to staff about why they opted to register with Government as a rehabilitation facility.