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Every homeless person has a mother. And most mothers never stop trying to help. Across the country, families watch someone they love disappear into serious mental illness, often exacerbated by anosognosia (biological brain disease), into systems that shut them out, and too often, onto the streets. Families are told they can't help. HIPAA is often used to keep them out. Mothers'/women's voices are disregarded.

This book challenges one of the most overlooked failures in mental health care: the systematic exclusion of families from treatment. Drawing on lived experience, policy insight, and decades of advocacy, the author reveals how clinicians and families can work together. Not blaming each other, but collaboratively, as evidence shows they can: to prevent crisis, reduce suffering, and prevent homelessness. When families are included, outcomes improve.

This is a simple, powerful idea, that is not unique, just not known to all families and clinicians. Clinicians are leaving the profession, families are suffering, and homelessness is increasing.

This is a call for mothers to find their voice, stand together and bring unity to mental health recovery, not as something done to individuals in isolation, but as a collaborative grass roots effort because we all want recovery for our loved ones.

This book is for mothers, families, clinicians, and policymakers. This book offers tools for prevention and recovery. It shares stories of success and inspiration.