We are excited to share the news that HB 335, a bill that would expand the definition of “gravely disabled” to include “psychiatric deterioration” and help Louisianans in crisis get help sooner, passed the House and is up for the final vote in the Senate! We need your help...

As part of Gov. Gavin Newsom's ongoing efforts to address untreated mental illness and homelessness across California, the administration proposed the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court initiative in March. The CARE Court proposal establishes a new...

HB 439, a bill that would expand the definition of dangerousness to include “mental deterioration” to help Ohioans in crisis get help sooner, is in the final stage of consideration by the Ohio House of Representatives’ Civil Justice Committee. We want to ensure the...

Congress gives the National Institute of Mental Health over $2 billion of your tax money each year to conduct research on mental illnesses. Until twenty years ago, research funds were split relatively evenly, 50-50, between basic research intended to develop better...

Treatment Advocacy Center strongly supports Representative Grace Napolitano’s (D-Calif.) legislation to repeal the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) exclusion. HR 2611, the Increasing Behavioral Health Treatment Act could finally put an end to the payment prohibition...