Senator Christine Cohen and advocate Denise Paley Legislating Mental Health Care

About this episode

The episode discusses the intricacies of mental health legislation with Senator Christine Cohen and advocate Denise Paley.

Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Connecticut State Senator Christine Cohen and advocate Denise Paley to unpack how mental health legislation gets built, watered down, and sometimes rescued through strategy and coalition work. We focus on crisis intervention training, prison mental health care, and the hard questions around rights, re-entry, and what real accountability looks like. • Senator Cohen’s personal path into mental health advocacy • why mental health bills stall be...

People in this episode

Host: Tony Mantor

Guests: Christine Cohen, Denise Paley

Topics covered

• mental health legislation
• crisis intervention training
• prison mental health care
• advocacy
• accountability

Keywords

• mental health
• legislation
• advocacy
• crisis intervention
• prison care

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Connecticut State

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