White House holding mental health summit

The White House is holding a meeting this afternoon on the Trump administration’s strategies for enhancing mental health treatment, and how that can ease homelessness, violence, and substance use disorder. The summit will feature experts in these subject areas, as well as leaders from law enforcement and local, state, and Cabinet government levels, according to a senior administration official. At least one person who is scheduled to speak at the invite-only meeting is DJ Jaffe, the executive director of the advocacy group Mental Illness Policy Organization. He has shared that he plans to speak on a range of issues, including increasing the use of assisted outpatient treatment — where the court orders mental health treatment for those too ill to recognize their need for care — as well as reducing incarceration of the seriously mentally ill.