A Blueprint for Community Action From Award-Winning Journalist Larry Hayes

Written with authority and compassion, this is the book thatrescues mental illness from the shadows and takes the disabilityinto the community.

• Learn how each person can play a role to help those whoso often suffer alone.
• Hear the stories of the people who’ve found how to triumphover this disability.
• Discover how everyone can work together to create a treatmentrevolution that enriches and saves lives.
• Let this guide open your heart and mind to be inspired andchallenged to do the work ahead.
  
  A Book that will Change Your Community!
  "Larry Hayes provides families with a real self-help manual thatis personal and compassionate, yet practical and hands-on. It islong overdue and can only come from someone who has beenthere--in the trenches. Larry certainly has."
  --Stephen C. McCaffrey, President, Mental Health America of Indiana
  
  "With a father's wit and a reporter's well-honed writing skills,Larry Hayes uses his family's story to offer practical suggestionsabout how communities can help persons with mental illnessesrecover and thrive. This is a wonderful blueprint that spells outways to change lives and help persons seldom seen or heard."
  --Pete Earley, author, CRAZY: A Father's Search Through America'sMental Health Madness
  
  "Larry Hayes demonstrates in this book a very rare gift that hehas, the ability to reduce complex social problems to simpleterms. In addition, he fills the book with practical solutions andways to reduce the somet-imes debilitating effects of mental illness."
  --James C. Howell, Ph.D., juvenile justice researcher