Access Barriers & Serious Mental Illness: Improving Timely, Consistent Access to Mental Health Treatment

More than 15 million Americans suffer from serious mental illness, or SMI. For each of them, access to effective, personalized care can be the difference between stability and crisis, independence and hospitalization — or even life and death. Yet far too many patients face real barriers that keep them from the clinicians, medications and therapies they need to thrive.