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Jack Wood

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
204 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

The business side of me, Tony, the professional business side of me, says you can't shoot the mental health carrier if they don't have the staff and they can't get the staff. And all of the mental health facilities in all of the country, really, but primarily I'm here in Florida, are understaffed with underqualified people. The qualified people that are still there burn out and quit.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

The business side of me, Tony, the professional business side of me, says you can't shoot the mental health carrier if they don't have the staff and they can't get the staff. And all of the mental health facilities in all of the country, really, but primarily I'm here in Florida, are understaffed with underqualified people. The qualified people that are still there burn out and quit.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They get replaced with lower quality people. And so it's the Pythagorean theorem. It's Murphy's Law. Whatever will go wrong will go wrong. I am proposing that it's a management problem. I'm proposing that the local sheriff, the local prosecutors and local public defenders and the local mental health care facilities and the local courts all know what's broken.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They get replaced with lower quality people. And so it's the Pythagorean theorem. It's Murphy's Law. Whatever will go wrong will go wrong. I am proposing that it's a management problem. I'm proposing that the local sheriff, the local prosecutors and local public defenders and the local mental health care facilities and the local courts all know what's broken.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They get replaced with lower quality people. And so it's the Pythagorean theorem. It's Murphy's Law. Whatever will go wrong will go wrong. I am proposing that it's a management problem. I'm proposing that the local sheriff, the local prosecutors and local public defenders and the local mental health care facilities and the local courts all know what's broken.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They all know that the jail is 60% loaded with people that should be in mental health facilities, not the jail. Everybody knows it. The idea that I came up with is the governor of the state of Florida should appoint a committee, appoint a team at the local level in a county and say to them, I am going to eliminate all rules. There are none.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They all know that the jail is 60% loaded with people that should be in mental health facilities, not the jail. Everybody knows it. The idea that I came up with is the governor of the state of Florida should appoint a committee, appoint a team at the local level in a county and say to them, I am going to eliminate all rules. There are none.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They all know that the jail is 60% loaded with people that should be in mental health facilities, not the jail. Everybody knows it. The idea that I came up with is the governor of the state of Florida should appoint a committee, appoint a team at the local level in a county and say to them, I am going to eliminate all rules. There are none.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

No civil liberty rules, no HEPA rules, no financial rule, nothing. And you guys go out there and I want in six months or a year on my desk, I want you to show me whether it's working. I am proposing that we already have the money to do what's right. The problem is that the money is being spent in the jail.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

No civil liberty rules, no HEPA rules, no financial rule, nothing. And you guys go out there and I want in six months or a year on my desk, I want you to show me whether it's working. I am proposing that we already have the money to do what's right. The problem is that the money is being spent in the jail.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

No civil liberty rules, no HEPA rules, no financial rule, nothing. And you guys go out there and I want in six months or a year on my desk, I want you to show me whether it's working. I am proposing that we already have the money to do what's right. The problem is that the money is being spent in the jail.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

Well, we can't move all the people, the 60 people that are in the jail, can't be moved into a mental health facility. We don't have any beds.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

Well, we can't move all the people, the 60 people that are in the jail, can't be moved into a mental health facility. We don't have any beds.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

Well, we can't move all the people, the 60 people that are in the jail, can't be moved into a mental health facility. We don't have any beds.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

We have a jail, so take that floor over. Take that floor over and move everybody into mental health and tell the police and the courts and the CEOs of the jail, go work someplace else. The money is already there. We need to do team ball. We need to play team ball. It's like a football team. where you have a wide receiver that says, I won't block. I'm not going to block because I could get hurt.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

We have a jail, so take that floor over. Take that floor over and move everybody into mental health and tell the police and the courts and the CEOs of the jail, go work someplace else. The money is already there. We need to do team ball. We need to play team ball. It's like a football team. where you have a wide receiver that says, I won't block. I'm not going to block because I could get hurt.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

We have a jail, so take that floor over. Take that floor over and move everybody into mental health and tell the police and the courts and the CEOs of the jail, go work someplace else. The money is already there. We need to do team ball. We need to play team ball. It's like a football team. where you have a wide receiver that says, I won't block. I'm not going to block because I could get hurt.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And there's nobody saying, well, on this particular play, you are going to block. Well, when you have a coach, the coach will say, yeah, you're going to block here. And if you don't, we'll have a new receiver. This is how we're going to play ball. Nobody's doing that.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And there's nobody saying, well, on this particular play, you are going to block. Well, when you have a coach, the coach will say, yeah, you're going to block here. And if you don't, we'll have a new receiver. This is how we're going to play ball. Nobody's doing that.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And there's nobody saying, well, on this particular play, you are going to block. Well, when you have a coach, the coach will say, yeah, you're going to block here. And if you don't, we'll have a new receiver. This is how we're going to play ball. Nobody's doing that.