The Arizona Mad Moms can take credit for four new mental health laws, but members of the growing group say it’s only a start in reforming what they say is a severely broken state system that has left their children needlessly unhoused, incarcerated and, in some cases, dead.
New state laws the group supported and pushed through the legislative process are about accountability within the system — ensuring that people with serious mental illness get better treatment from providers by ensuring that providers listen to families and consider a patient’s history.