Prevention, continuity of treatment, and culturally responsive crisis response must be the standard — not the exception.
Our hearts are with this Walnut Creek family in their grief.

Regardless of the specific circumstances of any incident, the common thread is that families need stronger systems of care long before law enforcement is ever involved.

We must keep pressing to get families the tools, resources, safe pathways, and treatment access they need before situations escalate and lives are lost.

Man killed by Walnut Creek police had suffered from mental illness for years, mom says The mother of a 46-year-old man with schizophrenia who was shot and killed by Walnut Creek police after an incident involving what turned out to be a pellet gun says she's "spent so many years advocat...

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The circumstances surrounding what happened today and what happened to Miles are very different. But what connects them is that both families were navigating serious mental illness within a system that often requires a crisis before meaningful intervention occurs.

Still haunted by this investigative reporting... MENTAL ILLNESS IS NOT A CRIME!

We support the Committee to Protect Public Mental Health, an independent group of psychiatrists including Board member, Dr. Eric Rafla-Yuan!

We ALL must speak out against injustice and misinformation! Read more here. www.protectpublicmentalhealth.org/media

Remembering Miles Hall: Honoring His Life & Legacy with Compassion, Courage & Action Miles was our dear friends’ only son. He was just 23 years young, not unlike my own children. Miles was more than a headline or a hashtag. He was a loving son and grandson, a supportive big brother, ...

In a powerful post, “Remembering #MilesHall: Honoring His Life & Legacy with Compassion, Courage, and Action,” a founding members of FOSATH reflects on the impact of Miles’ life and the urgent need for change on his 6th #angelversary #restinpower
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When we fight to #decriminalizementalillness these horrific harms (torture, starvation) are part of why we need to remove law enforcement (+jails prisons) from the equation. Miles was killed by police bullets when he needed care. Is this the "care" he would have received if he'd lived? 💔 NO!

SAMHSA is at Risk. It's Critical To Mental Health Care in the US. Along with so many other things across our government, SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is being dismantled before our eyes. One of the main hurdles in defending i...

Along with so many other things across our country today, SAMHSA, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, is being dismantled before our eyes. One big hurdle in defending its importance is that many don't know what does. >>

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✨ Get your tickets today! Early bird discounts are available when you bring friends & family!

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Let’s come together to celebrate love, legacy, and community healing. We can’t wait to see you there! 💚

Your show had value @joyannreid.bsky.social 💚 🖤 💚
This is not right. You will rise again.

The media is not standing up and and fighting for truth and the values of democracy! #BlackLivesMatter
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Donate | The Miles Hall Foundation Support our goals in advocacy, education, and prevention with your donation. Make a difference today and contribute to our impactful work.

Miles brought love and light into the world. He was so loved. He should be with his family celebrating his 29th birthday tomorrow.

In the face of unimaginable loss, the Hall family has turned their pain into purpose. This kind of love is everlasting.

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Saturday February 15 would have been Miles 29th Birthday. Againwe're grateful the Contra Costa Board of Supervisors has declared it "Miles Hall Day of Remembrance".

We remember Miles EVERY day as he inspires everything we do to decriminalize and destigmatize mental illness and end police harm.

Join us for our annual "Going the Extra MILES" Year End Celebration and Community Update the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
But pre-register today to get the Zoom link and the video recording afterwards if you can't join us live.

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Remember this. We are weaker now. “Trump has groomed us.” Try to hold and speak and advocate what you know is right and true. We’ve already moved so far. Don’t change your standards to accommodate their shameless incompetence & cruelty.

To learn more about The Miles Hall Foundation - check our our website and other social media and we'll get ramped up here in soon! linktr.ee/themileshall...
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You don't get a do over unless you can go back in time and give Ahmaud another chance. #GuiltyasCharged #JusticeforAhmaud #SayTheirNames

Just an FYI to fellow my Contra Costa peeps, call Rep. Mark DeSaulnier’s D.C. and Walnut Creek offices today and encourage him to release the Matt Gaetz ethics report.

Get in gear!
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And post photos of yourself on Thanksgiving tagging us with the hashtag #MilesforMiles

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