Geri Clark

A hundred percent. And there are some really spectacular stories out there of recovery. A young man that I know who received assistant outpatient treatment in Texas, I like to think of him as what my son could have been if my son had gotten what he got. He got assisted outpatient treatment. He got the medication clozapine. He got a team of people looking out for him, keeping track of him.

A hundred percent. And there are some really spectacular stories out there of recovery. A young man that I know who received assistant outpatient treatment in Texas, I like to think of him as what my son could have been if my son had gotten what he got. He got assisted outpatient treatment. He got the medication clozapine. He got a team of people looking out for him, keeping track of him.

A hundred percent. And there are some really spectacular stories out there of recovery. A young man that I know who received assistant outpatient treatment in Texas, I like to think of him as what my son could have been if my son had gotten what he got. He got assisted outpatient treatment. He got the medication clozapine. He got a team of people looking out for him, keeping track of him.

helping get him back on track if he started to decompensate again. My son didn't get any of that.

helping get him back on track if he started to decompensate again. My son didn't get any of that.

helping get him back on track if he started to decompensate again. My son didn't get any of that.

I couldn't agree more. I do believe that we need a national approach to severe mental illness so that states are accountable for the outcomes because the outcomes right now are horrific in almost every state. But that information is really not being tracked.

I couldn't agree more. I do believe that we need a national approach to severe mental illness so that states are accountable for the outcomes because the outcomes right now are horrific in almost every state. But that information is really not being tracked.

I couldn't agree more. I do believe that we need a national approach to severe mental illness so that states are accountable for the outcomes because the outcomes right now are horrific in almost every state. But that information is really not being tracked.

We don't have a national database that's going to say how many individuals with untreated severe mental illness are incarcerated, have killed family members, live under bridges.

We don't have a national database that's going to say how many individuals with untreated severe mental illness are incarcerated, have killed family members, live under bridges.

We don't have a national database that's going to say how many individuals with untreated severe mental illness are incarcerated, have killed family members, live under bridges.

That's right. And the treatment systems that we do have for severe mental illness, I like to describe as a funnel. Remember those coin funnels where you would put the penny in and the penny would spin down until it finally went down in the bottom of the funnel? I feel like that's what happened to my son.

That's right. And the treatment systems that we do have for severe mental illness, I like to describe as a funnel. Remember those coin funnels where you would put the penny in and the penny would spin down until it finally went down in the bottom of the funnel? I feel like that's what happened to my son.

That's right. And the treatment systems that we do have for severe mental illness, I like to describe as a funnel. Remember those coin funnels where you would put the penny in and the penny would spin down until it finally went down in the bottom of the funnel? I feel like that's what happened to my son.

Once he was spinning around that funnel, the system was just watching and waiting for him to fall down through the hole in the bottom. And down through that hole, we have social security systems that don't give you a very high quality of life. We have Medicaid systems that don't give you access to the most sophisticated type of care.

Once he was spinning around that funnel, the system was just watching and waiting for him to fall down through the hole in the bottom. And down through that hole, we have social security systems that don't give you a very high quality of life. We have Medicaid systems that don't give you access to the most sophisticated type of care.

Once he was spinning around that funnel, the system was just watching and waiting for him to fall down through the hole in the bottom. And down through that hole, we have social security systems that don't give you a very high quality of life. We have Medicaid systems that don't give you access to the most sophisticated type of care.

We have homelessness systems that might get you a shelter or a tent, but rarely help you get into the kind of supportive housing that's really needed for a long-term recovery and a higher quality of life.

We have homelessness systems that might get you a shelter or a tent, but rarely help you get into the kind of supportive housing that's really needed for a long-term recovery and a higher quality of life.