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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

In her mid-twenties, KK learned that her life-changing release from that hospital had come about, at least in part, due to a Protection & Advocacy organization that had sent in peers to talk with patients at the institution and reported on abuses there. Yet she had no idea what a P&A was.

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People Need Help, Not Handcuffs: Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System

NAMI

We also work with communities to invest in diversion strategies, like mental health courts and alternatives to incarceration, that give judges and prosecutors the tools they need to divert people who come into their court room but would benefit from treatment, not punishment.