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From Gang Member to Mental Health Advocate

I grew up in an inner-city community in San Diego, California, called “Southeast.” This area has always been known for crime, drugs and — m...

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Neuroplasticity III: Trusting Myself after Psychosis & Jail

It became clear that trusting myself had to come from within. This was not something that someone else could give me.

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Celebrating NAMI’s Role in Advocating for an Improved Criminal Justice System

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How the Justice System Fails Those with Mental Illness

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How Solitary Confinement Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis

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Mobile Crisis Teams: Providing an Alternative to Law Enforcement for Mental Health Crises

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Building a Recovery-Oriented System of Care

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How Advocates Can Push for A Crises Standard of Care

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How You Can #Act4MentalHealth During the Next Legislative Session

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How Advocates Can Push for a Crises Standard of Care

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Overcoming Inadequate Crisis Response: Why 988 is an Opportunity

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How Public Officials Can Protect the Rights of Prisoners with Mental Illness

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The Cost of Criminalizing Serious Mental Illness

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Criminal Justice Involvement of People with Serious Mental Illness

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What Is Mental Health Probation?

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He’s Not a Criminal, He’s in Crisis

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Black Mental Health and the Importance of 988 Legislation

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The Voices that Caused Me to Lose Everything

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Neuroplasticity II: Recovery After Jail

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Neuroplasticity: How I Survived Psychosis and Jail

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Criminal Justice Reform Means Reforming the Mental Health System

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A Plea for Compassion as Someone Who Was Arrested During Psychosis

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What Happens When Your Child’s School Reports Suicidal Ideation

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Ways We Can Address the Social Determinants of Mental Health

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He’s Not a Criminal, He’s in Crisis

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How NAMI Storytelling Builds the CIT Movement

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Giving Support to Individuals in the Criminal Justice System

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The Many Forms of Mental Illness Discrimination

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How Public Officials Can Protect the Rights of Prisoners with Mental Illness

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Why We Must Improve Police Responses to Mental Illness

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Why Crisis Intervention Team Training Should Be the Standard

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Racial Disparities in Mental Health and Criminal Justice

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What Kept Me Going After My Episode

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My Brother is Not a Threat, He Has Schizophrenia

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Building Bonds Behind Bars with NAMI Peer-to-Peer

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An Important Conversation with My Mom

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Riding the Shark: Surviving Crisis/Catastrophe

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Police Perspective: Overcoming PTSD

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Police Perspective: The impact of trauma on law enforcement spouses

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Police Perspective: The Man in the Mirror

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Should Police Accommodate People with Mental Illness in Crisis? The Supreme Court Weighs In—Kind Of

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Cruel and Unusual – It’s Time to End an American Tragedy

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What Does the Federal Government Shutdown Mean for Social Security?

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Newtown Tragedy: Push for Mental Health Reform

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Gun Laws and Mental Health

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