NSSC: Voices of Change Part 2: Serious Mental Illness, Missed Care, and the Criminal Justice Gap

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We sit with seven voices to name what happens when psychosis and serious mental illness are misunderstood, under-treated, and pushed into jails, courts, and the streets. We challenge the quiet standard of neglect and outline what it takes to turn awareness into policy, funding, and care that actually saves lives. 

• failures in jail-based competency restoration and medication continuity 
• why anosognosia is under-taught and widely misunderstood 
• the life expectancy gap for schizophrenia and why it should alarm all of us 
• first-episode psychosis dismissed at intake unless suicide is stated 
• families carrying trauma in silence and why tragedies stay out of public view 
• reframing “crime” as illness when actions happen during psychosis 
• culture change through education and responsible media storytelling 
• courts naming behavioral health as a top driver of caseloads and cost 
• coalition-building across chambers and parties to move stalled bills 
• cost comparisons of hospitalization and incarceration versus treatment up front 
• homelessness as a revolving door and the role of AOT 
• the Medicaid IMD exclusion as a barrier to beds, housing, and long-term care 

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