“Coercive interventions are costly, traumatic, and ineffective. Community-rooted care, grounded in trust and lived experience, is how we build a system that prevents crisis instead of punishing it.”
“We need to invest in the solutions that actually work. Those solutions must be rooted in treating public health challenges with public health responses, not the same reflexive reliance on…
“Yes, we are seeing more people on the streets, and many of them are in crisis. But unless we deal with the root causes of homelessness, we are just going…
“Every time you try to look at a piece of what’s being said here, it opens up a Pandora’s box of questions,” said Beth Haroules, director of disability justice litigation…
“This policy, while likely formed with good intent, is short-sighted and places more strain on a system that is close to breaking. It also shifts focus and continues to villainize…
“We learned decades ago that institutionalizing people, or locking them away in state mental hospitals, was not the solution. This practice demonized people with mental health challenges, disappearing them, and…