The Mississippi State Legislature passed Senate Bill 2727 during its 2024 regular session. This law establishes the Mississippi K-12 Mental Health Task Force for 2024. The law requires the Task Force…
I love Families as Allies. I grew to love it long before I was a mom. I came to love it in the late 1990s when I was working as…
by Joy Hogge All of us at Families as Allies were heartbroken to learn that Rankin County Youth Court Judge Thomas Broome died on May 21 after a brief illness.…
I had no idea I would be writing this memorial tribute when we decided to celebrate Women's History Month by honoring women who exemplify all that Families as Allies stands…
The end of one year and the start of the next is often a time for reflection and hope—although I know many of us have become a bit more cautious in what we hope for…
I've written many intros to our weekly editions of the Ally since we began publishing it in April 2020. This one is particularly sweet to me. The day this newsletter…
On Friday, October 15, Judge Carlton Reeves issued an order granting the State of Mississippi's motion for a partial stay of the remedial order in the ongoing mental health lawsuit pending…
On October 6, the third day of Mental Illness Awareness Week and a few days before World Mental Health Day, the state of Mississippi filed its appeal of Judge Reeves' ruling and related orders in the…
Background: In 2011, after an extended investigation of Mississippi's mental health system, the United States Department of Justice found that Mississippi was “unnecessarily institutionalizing persons with mental illness” in violation of…
Last Tuesday, June 22, was the 21st anniversary of the ruling in the landmark Supreme Court case, Olmstead v L.C., which established that people with disabilities, including mental illness, have the…