SAMHSA's GAINS Center estimates that 64% of people in jail have a mental health condition. 🧠 The overlap with trauma histories, substance use, and co-occurring disorders is even higher among women. Here's what that means: you can't just release someone with untreated mental health needs and expect a different outcome. Without support, the system recycles the same people, almost always at enormous cost to them, to their families, and to communities that deserve better. 🔄 Healing is not separate from public safety. It is public safety. 💚 Desistance research is consistent: people who receive mental health and substance use support as part of their reentry process are significantly more likely to maintain the stability that allows them to permanently exit crime. Our Center for Women behavioral health services are integrated directly into residential reentry our residents. Not as an add-on. As the foundation. 🏠 Because when people heal, communities heal. I'm Investing in Second Cha...