News and Blog Posts

We are pleased to announce a new relationship with Texas Prison Bookstore.Our readers are aware of the criminalization of people with mental illness. Poverty, trauma, substance abuse, mental illness, and school failure work together to create the notoriou...

Over the course of the past year we have been blogging pretty steadily.Our blog Redesigning Mental Illness is our shot at social innovation. What can change the experience of mental illness in America? We think ordinary people can rediscover their capacit...

Lorna d'Entremont of Special Needs Book Review has the most comprehensive set of books to help parents and teachers support the needs of children with disabilities. We are happy to support her work. There's a new review of our 2013 update on her site, alo...

I have an engraved paperweight from the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, a small token for connecting Catholic Social Services with this philanthropy. It commemorates a puny little grant of $6000, one of the first times our local bishop let the ag...

In many communities, nearly every child has a parent or close relative who has been incarcerated. How can we lessen the impact of this trauma? There’s no easy way forward. In some institutions it’s almost impossible for security reasons to send a child’s ...

Detecting suicidal thinking can stop bomb plots like Boston’s. Like every one of our recent mass killings, this was suicide with a murderous twist.  The minimum requirements for suicide are suicidal intent and access to a means of suicide.If the mean...

In the aftermath of violent incidents we see missed opportunities to detect, prevent or defuse these attacks. Someone could have, should have done something. It seems obvious that our society needs a way to actually prevent mass murder. Because we are ...

My book Defying Mental Illness was written for people with symptoms and families. Time to focus on the larger society's response to mental illness. That's the purpose of my new blog, "Redesigning Mental Illness."Find it here:http://redesigningmentalillnes...