SPRING Summit 2025
May 14-15, 2025
Join us on May 14 and 15 in Washington, D.C., for our 2nd annual SPRING Summit, where we’ll work together to plan and activate core components of our Roadmap to Recovery. At our 2025 SPRING Summit, we’ll focus on the emotional and social isolation that causes traumatic stress, additional medical issues and lost productivity for people with schizophrenia and their care partners.
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SPRING Summit 2024
May 15, 2024
S&PAA’s inaugural Schizophrenia Policy and Research Institute NextGen (SPRING) Summit in Washington, D.C., was a unique and groundbreaking collaboration to create a roadmap for transforming the fragmented system of care for people with schizophrenia into a path toward recovery. Participants represented the diverse range of stakeholders in the schizophrenia journey: those diagnosed with the disease, care partners, judges, law enforcement, researchers, community leaders and policymakers.
New Schizophrenia Policy Action Network (SPAN) will advocate for policies that improve diagnosis, treatment and care for people living with schizophrenia
Alexandria, VA, May 16, 2024 – The new Schizophrenia Policy Action Network (SPAN) launched today as a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization that will work to advance policies and legislation that shatter barriers to care for people living with schizophrenia. Created as an affiliated organization of the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance, SPAN’s efforts will include: “Less […]
New survey shows key voter groups break for candidates with mental health solutions
Results align with previous polls showing mental health a top issue among voters Washington, D.C., May 16, 2024 – Two new surveys released today suggest that U.S. political candidates who endorse concrete solutions to major mental health issues will attract support from key voting blocs: suburban women and people directly affected by mental illness. The survey […]
SPRING Summit maps solutions to transform patient journey for people living with schizophrenia
People with the severe brain disease, care partners & healthcare providers collaborate to create new “Roadmap to Recovery” Washington, D.C., May 15, 2024 – More than 125 people with schizophrenia, their families/care partners and other schizophrenia stakeholders are convening here today to discuss the most glaring gaps in care for this severe brain disease and […]
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Go Back Download Congressional Meeting Materials FY2024 Funding for Study on the Costs of Serious Mental Illness Download Report Need for New Prevalence Surveys of People with Schizophrenia Download Report
Capitol Hill Briefing Speaker Bios
Go Back People With Schizophrenia Face Severe Treatment Barriers Regulatory, policy solutions urgently needed to address inequity ANALISA CHASE Analisa Chase of Tacoma, WA, is a behavior interventionist who works to improve the quality of life for people on the autism spectrum. In 2016, at age 24, she was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder – a […]
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