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…
Mental Health, the Justice System, and the Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery Judge Steve Leifman is a retired Miami-Dade County court judge who continues his advocacy work through the Leifman Group. He sat down with us to talk about what brought him to this work, what Miami has built over the last twenty-five…
A #FlawlessTalk on Maternal Mental Health Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a time to celebrate the beauty of new life, but it is also an opportunity to speak about the realities many new moms face. The transition to parenthood can be one of the loneliest and most overwhelming seasons of life. Recently, we sat…
A Conversation with Commissioner Stanley Richards at the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City. On April 23rd, Flawless Foundation attended the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City Breakfast Forum, hosted by CCC President Richard Aborn and featuring New York City Department of Correction Commissioner Stanley Richards. The conversation centered on the people inside…
Understanding Roles & Titles For National Counseling Awareness Month, we sat down with Dr. George Giuliani, a licensed psychologist and university professor, to help simplify the world of mental health. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the various titles, degrees, and acronyms found in a provider directory, this guide is for you. Decoding the Professional…
March 30th marks World Bipolar Day, a global initiative dedicated to bringing worldwide awareness to bipolar disorders and eliminating the persistent stereotypes, myths and discrimination that surround them. The date itself is a tribute to the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh, a man whose vibrant paint colors and emotional landscapes changed the world. While Van…
Help Instead of Jail for our Neighbors In the United States, jails and prisons have become the largest, de facto mental health providers. Facilities like New York’s Rikers Island, Los Angeles’ Twin Towers Jail, and Chicago’s Cook County Jail hold more patients with serious mental illness than any state hospital. Here in South Florida, the…
Flawless Resilience: Understanding Self-Harm and How to Help Self-Harm Awareness, Support, and Resources Trigger Warning: The following content includes discussion of self-harm and emotional distress. This may be triggering for some individuals. Call or text 988 for free, confidential support 24/7. Far too many people carry the weight of self-harm in secret, navigating a world…
By: Shelly Allhands International Women’s Day is one of our favorite days of the year here at Flawless Foundation. It’s a day to celebrate the visionaries who haven’t just studied the brain, but have fundamentally changed how we care for it. From the pioneers who broke through systemic barriers to the modern scientists mapping the…