julia lee Fifty Shades of Whey President Biden Vice President Kamala Harris Senate Democrats nami sung Mental Illness Policy Org Mental Health News 24/7 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Yes!!!!
This sad state of our mental health system started when the federal govt went from housing people struggling with mental illness to a 'community based mental health system.'

Many of the afflicted w/o family support end up homeless or in jail. Most of these use ER as...

Hopefully this bigger picture will help people see the broader context for our current policy on helping ppl who aren't meeting their basic needs. That plan is a component of this one. No choice to be made between addressing psych crises + averting them!
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Amy Barnhorst, MD Yes. The reluctance of mental health and justice organizations to acknowledge that people with untreated serious mental psychosis are more at risk to be violent does no one any favors. Here is a great illustration of that. By Mental Illness Policy Org and Sally Satel mentalillnesspolicy.org/media/bestmedi…

Great news! West Valley Supervisor Supervisor Kathryn Barger has nominated Dr. Drew Pinsky to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority #LAHSA . Few people understand Street Suffering better. Don’t believe me? Watch our discussions with him on our homepage here:

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Open Letter: SMI Advocates Urge President Biden pick for #HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to appoint an Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use who will continue to adjust past inequities for people living with serious #mentalillness . Read here: bit.ly/2Ojju5E

GREAT! Dr. Drew interviewed Eric Smith in this podcast about his journey from a high school dropout diagnosed with severe #mentalillness to becoming a nationally recognized mental health advocate & public speaker thanks 2 assisted outpatient treatment #AOT

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Assisted outpatient treatment programs across the country have shown great success in helping people with #SMI get out of the revolving door of hospitalization and get the care they need. We are excited to see the addition of a new AOT program in La. bit.ly/39BaOQ1

As seen in today's #RESEARCHWEEKLY , hospital patients with schizophrenia have 2.7 times greater odds of dying from #COVID19 . Read more about the correlation between schizophrenia and Covid-19 in Forbes. bit.ly/3jct1qv

I am speaking at Virtual LEPH 2021 Conference. Please checkout the details of my talk at: whova.com/xems/apis/open…

#MomsOnaMission , Lauren Rettagliata, and I are so excited to see this Heart Forward LA Podcast launched and humbled to be guests for the two opening episodes. Please listen and learn about our journey for #HousingThatHeals in #California . 'Minds are open when hearts are broken.'

Those with the most severe mental illnesses had a great friend in Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services. President Biden must build on that legacy. nationalreview.com/2021/02/dont-u…

According to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry, hospital patients in the schizophrenia diagnosis group had 2.7 times greater odds of dying from #COVID19 . Read more in #RESEARCHWEEKLY : bit.ly/3j9oqFv

This has major implications for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. We can't let those with schizophrenia fall through the cracks - they should be considered a priority group for the vaccine.

We strongly urge readers to tune into this important zoom cast today at 4pm ET. The United States spends $147 billion annually on mental illness yet 140,000
seriously mentally ill are homeless. Learn about a GREAT new coalition addressing this travesty!

Ben Miller 1. Yes, Joe Biden should have a task force to deal with mental illness but it should look at mental illness through the lens of serious mental illness. Covid or no Covid.
Why hitch MI/SMI/SUD to the Covid bandwagon? The country has been in #mentalillness crisis for decades.

Congratulations to our founder, Dr. E Fuller Torrey, on receiving an Honorary Pardes Humanitarian Prize. He continues to be a leading voice for and champion of those with severe mental illness. We are proud of all he continues to accomplish. bit.ly/34eWZDc

Fact sheet on where government SHOULD spend money to help the mentally ill, where government DOES spend, and where government is FORCED to spend because it doesn't spend where it should: mentalillnesspolicy.org/spend-vs-shoul…
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Messages from event led by Steve Eide at Manhattan Institute today on DJ Jaffe's legacy: '[To] Team DJ: DJ stood at the center of this coalition that all of us are affiliated with. My hope is that this coalition can stay together...because this is the model for reform.' Stephen Eide

'DJ was all about action, not just talking about things. And that's a great legacy that we can all take up.' --@JohnSnookTAC on the late DJ Jaffe's advocacy legacy, earlier today at a Manhattan Institute web forum honoring Jaffe. youtube.com/watch?v=rhn7-a…