On Tuesday, June 16, the Miami-Dade County Commission approved the operating plan for the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery, and the vote was unanimous. After twenty-two years, the doors are going to open. We are overjoyed, and we are thinking of the neighbors who will walk through them. In America, the largest providers…
By Dr. Robin Jones | Perspectives from the Frontlines | Published: June 16, 2026 Today, I sat inside the Commission Chamber at the Stephen P. Clark Center, in Miami, watching decades of relentless advocacy culminate in a single, unanimous voice of approval. It is a morning I will not soon forget. The energy inside the…
Reflections from #JEDGala2026 Recently, the Flawless team attended the JED Foundation Gala in New York City. We came as attendees. We left thinking about what it means to stand alongside people who have decided that youth mental health is worth fighting for, and what each of us owes to that commitment. The evening opened with…
By Dr. Robin Jones Director of Strategy and Innovation, Flawless Foundation Energy, community, and wellness took center stage at the recent School District of Palm Beach County School Board Meeting. It was a night of immense pride for us as our incredible partners at Digital Vibez received well-deserved recognition for their phenomenal, transformative work with…
We Lost the Filmmaker. Let’s Not Forget His Cause. The mental health advocacy community has lost a quiet giant. Brian Lindstrom was a Portland, Oregon-based documentary filmmaker who devoted his career to telling the stories of people living with mental illnesses and the consequences of a judicial system that too often criminalizes them. He described…
Miami-Dade didn’t just join the movement to treat mental illness as health problems instead of crimes. It started it. Back in 1989, Miami-Dade opened the first drug court in the nation, betting on the idea that people struggling with substance use deserve treatment and accountability instead of a jail cell. That model has since spread…
Consider this your official notification: You’ve Been Book’d! Mental Health Awareness Month is always an incredibly important time of year for the work Flawless Foundation and so many other organizations do, but this month felt especially grounded in action, education, and collective healing! We’ve compiled all of our top recommendations from the month into this…
Here’s What the Data Says… Mental health policy debates often focus on access and affordability. Those gaps are real, but they sit on top of something deeper: a system that has never treated brain health as a legitimate medical priority, and that has consistently failed the people most in need of it. Five fault lines…
You’re scrolling your phone. Your chest is tight, your jaw is clenched, and you can’t quite name why. Maybe something happened earlier. A tense conversation, a deadline, a piece of news that landed wrong. Or maybe nothing happened at all, and that’s the hardest part to explain. What you’re feeling has a name: nervous system…
There is an idea at the center of Internal Family Systems therapy that, the first time you hear it, feels almost too gentle to be true. There are no bad parts of you. Not the anxious one. Not the angry one. Not the one that shuts down when life gets heavy. Each of those inner…