A national initiative aims to improve justice engagement for individuals with mental illness, highlighting the need for systemic reform.
Addressing long‐standing gaps in how the justice system engages with people living with serious mental illness is the focus of a coordinated national initiative launched by the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) and the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance (S&PAA). The organizations are inviting policymakers, legal experts, clinicians, and individuals with lived experience to help shape what they describe as a new National Mental Illness Justice Center.
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