Please join us on June 28, 2023, 12:00pm - 1:15pm ET for a conversation exploring the role of the built environment in decriminalizing mental illness.

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JUNE 28, 2023
12:00PM - 1:15PM ET
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The Sozosei Foundation invites you to participate in a conversation to explore the role of the built environment in emergency crisis response, and how you can support transformational changes to improve collective and individual wellbeing in order to decriminalize mental illness.

911/988 is the front door of our nation’s emergency crisis response. It is one of the most widely used civic engagement tools. Yet, the situations that lead people to call and the responses that they experience are often shaped and constrained by failures in the built environment. Investing in the built environment is an extraordinary and under-utilized lever for decriminalizing mental illness, increasing public safety, enhancing civic participation, addressing inequities, and improving public health.

I hope you will join us for this important conversation where together with Rebecca Neusteter of the University of Chicago Health Lab, Katya Smyth of the Full Frame Initiative, and Clyde Valentin of the One Nation/One Project we will ideate and solve for some of our nation’s most important and also resolvable challenges. Please join us.

The Sozosei Foundation was established in 2019 as a philanthropic arm of Otsuka. The name Sozosei means “creativity” in Japanese. Our Japanese heritage is manifest in the Foundation’s fundamental values and day-to-day operations. The Foundation’s mission is to be a catalyst for ideas that nurture creative solutions for healthier communities. The Foundation’s the primary focus is to increase access to mental healthcare in order to eliminate the inappropriate use of jails and prisons for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in the United States.