Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance (S&PAA) is leading a system-wide movement for change. Are you ready to join us?
When someone suffers a medical emergency, they’re rushed to the hospital by ambulance, quickly diagnosed and given life-saving medical care with follow-up supportive services. But when that medical emergency is psychosis—which causes brain damage when left untreated—it’s often the police who respond, taking the person in handcuffs to the emergency room or jail. They’re more likely to be sedated than effectively treated. Eventually, they’ll be discharged to the street, with no follow-up care or support.
People with schizophrenia have been carved out of the medical system—because schizophrenia isn’t viewed as a medical condition. We treat the symptoms, not the disease. It is systemic negligence.
People with schizophrenia have the right to effective medicines, social support and housing, and recognition that they are people who want to live and thrive.
In 2021, S&PAA adopted a bold 10-year plan (2022-2031) for life-saving care, treatment policy, and research.
Research
Accelerate earlier diagnosis and breakthrough treatments and uncover the societal, caregiver and patient costs of schizophrenia to improve resources for care.
Education & Care
Provide resources for individuals, families and healthcare professionals to improve patient and caregiver outcomes.
Advocacy & Public Policy
Drive systemic change to fix our broken healthcare system and create equitable access to high-quality care for people with schizophrenia.
Research
Leading research projects to inform advocacy and create systems-level change. Our work focuses on documenting the costs of schizophrenia, disseminating best-practice treatments and promoting treatment innovation.
Education & Care
Developing the only freely accessible, comprehensive and personalized platform to provide digestible, science-based education about schizophrenia and providing support groups, personalized helpline support and connections to science-based resources for thousands of people affected by schizophrenia every year.
Advocacy & Public Policy
Replacing the separate, inferior system of care for people with schizophrenia that leads to worsened disease, homelessness, incarceration and death.
Questions?
If you or a loved one has thoughts of self-harm, go to a hospital emergency room or dial the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988.
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