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The Case of Vincent Atchity and Kelly Grimes
📻 Episode #88
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Feb 25, 2019
About This Episode
In this compelling interview, Vincent Atchity and Kelly Grimes join Jason Flom for a candid discussion about the criminal justice system and how it fails to support Americans with mental health challenges. Vincent Atchity has served as Executive Director of The Equitas Project since 2015. Vincent is an advocate for public health and health equity,…
The Case
In this compelling interview, Vincent Atchity and Kelly Grimes join Jason Flom for a candid discussion about the criminal justice system and how it fails to support Americans with mental health challenges. Vincent Atchity has served as Executive Director of The Equitas Project since 2015. Vincent is an advocate for public health and health equity, a population health management strategist, and a builder of communications bridges connecting communities and community partners with better health outcomes and more efficiently managed costs. Kelly Grimes is a graduate of the Manhattan Mental Health Court, where CASES provides case management services, including treatment, planning and reporting on clients’ progress to the court. Kelly is now a certified peer specialist with CASES, as the peer specialist for the Manhattan Mental Health Court team. She has moved from being a client of the court to serving clients of the court. The Equitas Project, an initiative of the David and Laura Merage Foundation, envisions an America rededicated to liberty and justice for all, where there is a commonly held expectation that jails and prisons should not continue to serve as the nation’s warehouses for people with unmet mental health needs. Equitas is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which promotes mental health awareness, and champions laws, policies, and practices that prioritize improved population health outcomes, sensible use of resources, and the decriminalization of mental illness.
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00:05:59“Speaker 6: eighty percent have some kind of a mental health vulnerability. Speaker 3: Right, And I'd read that statistic eighty percent, and I Speaker 3: just I didn't want to believe it. So I just Speaker 3: wanted to make you say it because it's a staggering Speaker 3: number and it's such a preventable, avoidable, terrible statistic. And”
00:23:03“Speaker 3: Many of them had you know, checkered pasts, right, they Speaker 3: did what they could do to turn a living where they Speaker 3: and I'm not saying it's right wrong, I'm not judging Speaker 3: it whatsoever, but it's impossible to believe that there aren't Speaker 3: others who weren't lucky enough to avoid getting caught and”
00:37:49“Speaker 6: unfortunate events that that mother never wanted to wish on Speaker 6: their kids. So you go from a health crisis and Speaker 6: you turn into this total human catastrophe and it happens Speaker 6: all the time, right. Speaker 3: Which is all the more reason why you have to”
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