October 19 at 3:30 pm PDT / 6:30 pm EDT

Mental health care across the United States is plagued by insufficient and inequitable access to effective resources and treatments. Too often, local communities become the de facto frontlines for intervention in mental health crises—schools, law enforcement, and hospital emergency rooms, none of which are adequately staffed or trained to meet the needs. To fill these gaps, philanthropists are focusing on supporting mental health care models at the local level. These focused efforts, targeting specific neighborhoods and cities, employ new, innovative approaches to improve access to mental health services, many of them scalable to larger communities.

Moderator

Cara Altimus
Senior Director, Center for Strategic Philanthropy, Milken Institute

Speakers

Nadine Burke Harris
Surgeon General, State of California

Andy Keller
President, CEO, and Linda Perryman Evans Presidential Chair, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Yolanda Lewis
Senior Director, Safety and Justice, The Pew Charitable Trusts