The Treatment Advocacy Center fights every day to improve laws, increase hospital bed availability, and keep those in need off the streets and out of jail. We do this in partnership with countless dedicated family members. We hear their stories, and we are fighting their fight - together we are advocating for change across the U.S.
The Treatment Advocacy Center is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating barriers to effective treatment. We have not and will not ever solicit or accept funding from pharmaceutical companies.
Fighting for Beds
Without access to hospital care, acutely ill individuals deteriorate, families and caregivers buckle under stress.
Fighting Against Victimization
Dismantling the US mental health system has left people who have severe mental illness without access to timely and effective treatment. The consequences are widespread and devastating to the individuals, their families and their communities.
Fighting Against Criminalization
Fifty years of failed public policy has forced law enforcement officers onto the front lines of mental health care and criminalized mental illness.
Fighting for Families
If you are one of the 8+ million Americans providing care to an adult with a mental health issue, you know the ups and downs.
Fighting for Better Laws
Voluntary treatment for any medical conditional is always preferable. However, because of the nature of mental illness, involuntary treatment and hospitallization is necessary in certain circumstances.
Fighting for Community-Based Care
Every community needs compassionate, effective mental health treatment laws and equally effective implementation of those laws. Assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) is shown to reduce hospitalization, arrest and incarceration, and homelessness.