“We make an assumption that someone is defined by who they currently are, who they can be, who they have been, based on what they've been arrested for.” Claire Simonich, Associate Director of verainstitute California, shares a striking example from our second annual Vision 2030 Solution Symposium: someone booked for arson may simply have been unhoused and trying to stay warm. Yet that booking alone can shut them out of the housing and mental health services that could turn their life around. Watch the full panel, "Breaking the Cycle: Strategies to Reduce Homelessness, Incarceration, and Hospitalization," on our YouTube channel. #Vision2030Symposium #Incarceration #MentalHealth #SubstanceUseDisorder #California