Image Credit:  Mark Weaver


​What we mean by "Mental Health"  --- "Neurologically Diverse"

*What we mean by "mental health" is "neurologically diverse," including folks with:
  • The "Mental Illness" label 
          "Mental illness" has many potential social/legal consequences which are   
           filtered through varying statutory requirements for civil commitment, 
           forced medication, Incompetent To Proceed (ITP), Not Guilty By Reason 
           of Insanity (NGRI), just plain old guilty, etc.  

           And overlaying all of this for some people is Homelessness.

  • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)  Again, folks sometimes find themselves in the criminal justice system  with no or inadequate  treatment & sometimes Homeless.
  • Developmental Disability
  • Substance Use Issues
  • Huntington's Chorea   (We specifically include Huntington's Chorea because of a horrific case involving a man with Huntington's Chorea who was also deaf who got stuck in a CO jail for over a year because he did not fit into the mental illness box -- this despite the fact that jail officials and all members of the criminal justice system were desperately trying to find an appropriate placement for the man), and/or
  • "We don't know what the heck is wrong with you," and/or
  • Etc.