Author name: Janet Hays

Governor Edwards needs to take advantage of federal incentives to increase psychiatric hospital and residential treatment bed capacity. Founder and director Janet Hays wrote about that in a letter published in The Advocate on April 15. Read the whole letter here.

On March 23rd, John Snook – Executive Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, gave testimony to the Presidential Law Enforcement Commission on the criminalization of mental illness. John was a keynote speaker at our first annual conference last year. Archived here. Here’s how you too can weigh in:The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of

We hope this message finds you safe and well as we work our way through the COVID-19 pandemic together. We encourage everyone to take this crisis seriously, to follow CDC recommendations for infection prevention and control, and to keep in mind that those living with severe mental illness may be disproportionately impacted. Our national partner, the