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Affiliation: Vermont National Alliance on Mental Illness Advocacy Committee
Leah Matteson is a Public Health Emergency Preparedness Nurse Planner with the NYSDOH and has a 20 year old son with multiple mental illness disorders including bi-polar disorder, OCD and Tourette Syndrome.
Francine Levine is a Nurse Manager at VSH where she has worked for the past 15 years. Her 23 year old son has schizoaffective disorder.
Ruth Kennedy Grant is a graduate of the UVM College of Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She practiced general internal and college medicine in Vermont for 20 years and is currently a Medical Reviewer at PKC Corp in Burlington. She is the mother of a 22 year-old son who suffers from schizophrenia.
There is a public health crisis looming in the background that has been kept silent from mainstream America: it is the criminalization of the mentally ill. The silence of this hidden tragedy is reminiscent of the Dorothea Dix era of over 150 years ago. Dorothea Dix, a teacher and social reformer traveled across the country in 1841 for two years, identifying the inhumane conditions of those who were mentally ill and imprisoned. Dorothea Dix believed that all people should have the chance to be treated fairly, regardless of their mental capacity and status. She was one of the most effective advocates of humanitarian reform for imprisoned persons with mental illness. Unfortunately, the system of care for the mentally ill is not much further ahead than it was when she... |
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