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Patrick Kennedy

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

That's what political campaigns, at their best, are about, helping to educate and build a coalition around kinds of ideas. That's what we need.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

In shameless self-promotions, Profiles in Mental Health Courage, I have in the back of the book, as I said, a QR code for our alignment for product. In order to make a difference, Tony, we need to align the various pieces of supports that we need. Some of those pieces are supportive employment. Who, when they think about intellectual disabilities, addictions, thinking about employment?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

In shameless self-promotions, Profiles in Mental Health Courage, I have in the back of the book, as I said, a QR code for our alignment for product. In order to make a difference, Tony, we need to align the various pieces of supports that we need. Some of those pieces are supportive employment. Who, when they think about intellectual disabilities, addictions, thinking about employment?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

In shameless self-promotions, Profiles in Mental Health Courage, I have in the back of the book, as I said, a QR code for our alignment for product. In order to make a difference, Tony, we need to align the various pieces of supports that we need. Some of those pieces are supportive employment. Who, when they think about intellectual disabilities, addictions, thinking about employment?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

Employment is key to the self-esteem and sense of purpose for people who are struggling and in recovery, trying to build stability in their lives. Housing. Who thinks that housing is what someone who has a medical need needs? Housing's crucial. If you don't have a stable place, you can't get the most efficacious treatment. What about these other combinations?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

Employment is key to the self-esteem and sense of purpose for people who are struggling and in recovery, trying to build stability in their lives. Housing. Who thinks that housing is what someone who has a medical need needs? Housing's crucial. If you don't have a stable place, you can't get the most efficacious treatment. What about these other combinations?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

Employment is key to the self-esteem and sense of purpose for people who are struggling and in recovery, trying to build stability in their lives. Housing. Who thinks that housing is what someone who has a medical need needs? Housing's crucial. If you don't have a stable place, you can't get the most efficacious treatment. What about these other combinations?

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And the problem is the whole government is siloed by budget. So there's so much money for housing, so much for labor, so much for criminal justice, so much for human services, so forth. And what we fail to do

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And the problem is the whole government is siloed by budget. So there's so much money for housing, so much for labor, so much for criminal justice, so much for human services, so forth. And what we fail to do

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

And the problem is the whole government is siloed by budget. So there's so much money for housing, so much for labor, so much for criminal justice, so much for human services, so forth. And what we fail to do

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

is say, how much of this money in housing is helping leverage the investments we're making in healthcare or in reducing the criminal justice spend because we unfortunately have no crisis response. By the way, for people with intellectual disabilities who too often get arrested because of the lack of literacy on the part of first responders about someone with intellectual disabilities, someone with

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

is say, how much of this money in housing is helping leverage the investments we're making in healthcare or in reducing the criminal justice spend because we unfortunately have no crisis response. By the way, for people with intellectual disabilities who too often get arrested because of the lack of literacy on the part of first responders about someone with intellectual disabilities, someone with

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

is say, how much of this money in housing is helping leverage the investments we're making in healthcare or in reducing the criminal justice spend because we unfortunately have no crisis response. By the way, for people with intellectual disabilities who too often get arrested because of the lack of literacy on the part of first responders about someone with intellectual disabilities, someone with

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

mental illness. And so we need to have a multi-pronged systems-based approach. And so that's why I call this the alignment for progress. And I'm working with all the other advocacy groups because we have to align. We all have an interest in this.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

mental illness. And so we need to have a multi-pronged systems-based approach. And so that's why I call this the alignment for progress. And I'm working with all the other advocacy groups because we have to align. We all have an interest in this.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

mental illness. And so we need to have a multi-pronged systems-based approach. And so that's why I call this the alignment for progress. And I'm working with all the other advocacy groups because we have to align. We all have an interest in this.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

Even though some of us have an interest in this piece of the continuum and others have an interest in this piece of the continuum, nothing will work unless we're all Understood that this has got to be a continuum and it requires all of our efforts, no matter where we are, to have a wider view of all the other aspects that need to go into helping people live their fullest lives.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

Even though some of us have an interest in this piece of the continuum and others have an interest in this piece of the continuum, nothing will work unless we're all Understood that this has got to be a continuum and it requires all of our efforts, no matter where we are, to have a wider view of all the other aspects that need to go into helping people live their fullest lives.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

Even though some of us have an interest in this piece of the continuum and others have an interest in this piece of the continuum, nothing will work unless we're all Understood that this has got to be a continuum and it requires all of our efforts, no matter where we are, to have a wider view of all the other aspects that need to go into helping people live their fullest lives.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Patrick Kennedy on Autism,Mental Health, Addiction, and Political Change

Yeah, I just might make a shameless plug too for Best Buddies. So I've been on the board of Best Buddies, which was started by my cousin, Anthony Shriver. And their really focus is employment. So they do work with companies that are willing to hire folks. Those folks have to obviously be mentors, supported in employment. They also have, it's like big brothers, big sisters, right?