Our Health Policy Matters

Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia  is now in the Columbia University Press catalog. Cover Photo Credit: Hartford Courant, Shana Sureck You can find it using this link:  http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16828-1/losing-tim It will be available in the Fall of 2014.  It is a story of how the mental health policies of the last generation of policymakers (of which I was a member) failed my son, and how the policies of this generation of policymakers continue to fail him, and so many like him. I can't say that I hope you will enjoy it, but I do hope you will find it moving.   And that it will help move us all - including the next generation of policymakers - to action.  It is long past the time we could pretend that neglect is a synonym for common sense and compassion.

Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia  is now in the Columbia University Press catalog. Cover Photo Credit: Hartford Courant, Shana Sureck You can find it using this link:  http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16828-1/losing-tim It will be available in the Fall of 2014.  It is a story of how the mental health policies of the last generation of policymakers (of which I was a member) failed my son, and how the policies of this generation of policymakers continue to fail him, and so many like him. I can't say that I hope you will enjoy it, but I do hope you will find it moving.   And that it will help move us all - including the next generation of policymakers - to action.  It is long past the time we could pretend that neglect is a synonym for common sense and compassion.