National Mental Illness Justice Center
The National Mental Illness Justice Center unites experts and advocates to improve legal system responses to serious mental illness.
Center of Excellence
The Schizophrenia Center of Excellence creates a national framework for integrated care, improving consistency, accountability, coordination, and outcomes across fragmented systems nationwide.
Solutions Series 2026
The S&PAA Solutions Series is a new national event series focused on catalyzing social innovation, advancing next-generation models of care, and developing modern tools and policies that measurably improve daily life for people affected by schizophrenia and psychosis.
Our Advocacy & Public Policy Program
Our public policy positions call for specific action on effective treatment, access to comprehensive care and to be treated with respect and urgency.
Peer Support Groups
Caring Voices: Schizophrenia & Psychosis Peer Support Support groups for peers and individuals with psychosis or schizophrenia spectrum conditions offer a compassionate and understanding environment to connect with others facing similar challenges. Through shared experiences and mutual support, participants provide encouragement, practical advice, and coping strategies, fostering a sense of community and belonging. Beyond our […]
Societal Costs
Societal & Caregiver Costs of Schizophrenia & Related Disorders The societal cost of schizophrenia is staggering—and until now, largely invisible at the state level where policy decisions are made. While cost-of-illness studies are not new, this analysis is the first to provide state-by-state estimates that fully account for how schizophrenia-related costs shift across healthcare, homelessness, […]
Caregiver Support Groups
Caregiver Support Groups are for families of people diagnosed with schizophrenia or a schizophrenia-related illness. Schizophrenia-related illnesses include psychosis in general, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and major depression with psychosis spectrum disorder.
Clinical Trials Information
Recruiting and retaining trial participants helps advance schizophrenia treatments, giving individuals an opportunity to make a difference through participation in clinical research.
Treatment
Explore the most common treatment options associated with Schizophrenia, Psychosis, and related brain diseases.
Early Intervention
Early Intervention Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment have been shown to improve outcomes for people with schizophrenia. (Studies have shown that people experiencing first-time psychosis often have symptoms for more than a year before receiving treatment.1) S&PAA is part of the National Institutes of Health’s Accelerating Medicines Partnership-Schizophrenia (AMP-SCZ) Steering Committee, which is working to […]