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Mental Health Is Not a Crime: How 988 and Crisis Services Will Transform Care

Congressional Briefing: Tackling the Nation's Mental Health Crisis

Advancing Mental Health and Well-Being In The United States

  Well Being Trust      Apr 5, 2021    Mental Health is Not a Crime: How 988 and Crisis Services Will Transform Care. A conservative estimate says 900,000 people with mental illness end up incarcerated every year. Join us for a discussion outlining the latest policies and programs changing our emergency response to people in crisis. This conversation is the second in a series of briefings from the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Mental Health & Suicide Prevention National Response to COVID-19 (National Response), called “Action Needed: Tackling the Nation’s Mental Health Crisis.” For more information about the National Response, visit https://nationalmentalhealthresponse….

Well Being Trust    Mar 27, 2021  Congressional Briefing: Tackling the Nationa’s Mental Health Crisis   This conversation is the first in a series of briefings from the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Mental Health & Suicide Prevention National Response to COVID-19 (National Response), called “Action Needed: Tackling the Nation’s Mental Health Crisis.” This initial conversation breaks down the mental health and addiction crisis facing the nation and lays out how we can begin to stop it, and features NIMH Director Dr. Joshua Gordon, Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, founder of the Kennedy Forum, and Director of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Colleen Carr. For more information about the National Response, visit https://nationalmentalhealthresponse….​.
Well Being Trust    Feb 18 , 2021 As a part of the IHI Innovation Theater, Well Being Trust hosted a webinar highlighting the importance of advancing mental health and well-being in the United States.