People with severe mental illness deserve access to psychiatric treatment in an inpatient setting.
But decades of cuts and neglect have left our system facing a critical shortage of needed psychiatric beds. This scarcity often leaves the most severely ill with nowhere to go, abandoning hundreds of thousands to jails and prisons, the streets, or worse.
The Treatment Advocacy Center has launched a campaign to end this injustice.
Together, we will:
- BRING ATTENTION to the causes and devastating consequences of our national psychiatric bed shortage;
- REFORM POLICIES at the state and federal levels that created and perpetuate this crisis;
- INCREASE the AVAILABLE NUMBER of psychiatric beds for people with severe mental illness; and
- ENSURE ACCESS for people to have #aBedInstead.
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