Mental Illness Policy Org

Mental Illness Policy Org

Unbiased information on serious mental illness (not "mental health") for media and policymakers. Includes info on violence and mental illness, involuntary treatment, involuntary commitment, assisted outpatient treatment, AOT, Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, NGRI

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Darrell Steinberg Report on California Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Wrong

Darrell Steinberg and the California Mental Health Directors who distribute Mental Health Services Act funds just released their own MHSA ...

Monday, December 22, 2014

Re: NYPD Shootings: Cuomo Should Sign "Prisoner Mental Health Discharge Bill" Today

Even after mentally ill ex-prisoner Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot New York Police Department officers Liu Wenjin and Raphael Ramosa, New York Stat...

Monday, November 17, 2014

Mental Health Advocates versus Mental Illness Advocates

Excerpts from Speech to NAMI/NYS Convention By DJ Jaffe Exec. Dir. Mental Illness Policy Org. November 15, 201...

Friday, October 31, 2014

Research Shows Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) Works

AOT allows courts to order six months of mandated and monitored treatment in the community for a very small group of people with very seri...

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Biggest Police Group Endorses Greater Use of Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)

“AOT helps prevent mental health officials from offloading the most seriously mentally ill to jails, shelters, prisons and mor...

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