OPENING SESSION: MENTAL ILLNESS & HOMELESSNESS - FROM CRISIS TO SOLUTIONS - A BETTER APPROACH скачать в хорошем качестве

OPENING SESSION: MENTAL ILLNESS & HOMELESSNESS - FROM CRISIS TO SOLUTIONS - A BETTER APPROACH

Master of Ceremonies, local celebrity, and investigative journalist, Mike Perlstein started the event off with a special presentation of Shattered Families: The Collapse of America’s Mental Health System. Mike has worked as an investigative reporter at WWL-TV in New Orleans since 2012. As a member of the Eyewitness Investigates team, Mike has tackled a wide range of stories exposing government waste, corrupt officials and miscarriages of justice in the courts. Speaker Biographies are published here: https://healingmindsnola.org/wp-conte... Unfortunately Nikki Forston who produced the film and was scheduled to give some brief remarks was unable to attend. The film demonstrates why we are seeing the tragic consequences of a fragmented mental health system all around us every day: in the streets, in the jails, in crisis systems and, sadly, in the morgue. We learned that these outcomes aren’t because we aren’t trying hard enough to help. So much energy, funding and resources pour into helping those who have developed diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder yet tragedies are all around us at disproportionate rates. ● Here are some national numbers: 1. More than 1.9 million emergency department (ED) visits yearly are psychiatric visits. Of these, 21.5% require ED boarding at a cost of over $968 million yearly. 2. Over 270,000 of the 1,829,000 adults incarcerated in America have serious mental and substance use disorders with an annual cost of more than $13 billion. 3. 67%10 of more than 275,000 unsheltered homeless people in the US have serious mental illness and/or chronic substance use disorders. Treatment costs to taxpayers are approximately $35,578 per person — more than $6 billion annually.