About Us
Improving Mental Health Care for Serious Mental Illness in Massachusetts
We are a nonprofit organization that advocates for an improved mental healthcare system for people with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and dissociative identity disorder. The mentally ill are among the most forgotten, ridiculed, and despised populations in the world. Mental ...
Advocating for Better Psychiatric Hospitals
Mental Health Impact focuses on advocacy and raising awareness of SMI and the inadequate mental healthcare system. For years, the general consensus among mental health advocates has been that the mental health care system is “broken.” This is because the mental health system for people with SMI operates largely ...
Promoting Effective Medications for Psychosis
As people with SMI often cannot work or face discrimination in hiring, they frequently end up jobless, homeless, and/or incarcerated. Furthermore, obtaining disability payments from the government can take years, and in the meantime, people with SMI have nowhere to turn. For people with SMI, life is unusually ...
Our Mission
To advocate for an improved mental healthcare system for people with serious mental illness (SMI) such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and dissociative identity disorder.
Our Vision
We envision a world in which people with mental illness are no longer abused and neglected by the mental health care system, and where the stigma against serious mental illness is significantly reduced.