Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
In collaboration with Mental Health & Suicide Prevention National Response to COVID-19 and Mindful Philanthropy
Jails and prisons are known as the largest providers of mental health care in the United States. When the police respond to a psychiatric crisis too often the result is days in an ER, incarceration and even death. No other illness is treated as a police problem. Join experts on the front lines of change.
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism bring together experts in mental health, substance use disorders, journalism and social injustice and health inequities for accurate, open and focused dialogues. We are committed to seizing the moment to inform and engage citizens, journalists, public health leaders, practitioners, policy makers and elected officials. We discuss complex problems, believing they surely have solutions, and ask that our speakers help point the way.
Director
North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services
Meg Kissinger
Joan Konner Visiting Professor of Journalism
Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
Judge Steve Leifman
Associate Administrative Judge of the Miami-Dade County Court
Lecturer in Psychiatry, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
John Draper, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President of National Networks, MHA
Executive Director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-TALK)
Moderator: Linda Rosenberg, MSW
Executive Director for External Relations
Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry