Schizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America

Awareness, Education, and Access: The Organization builds awareness of and educates about schizophrenia, psychosis and related disorders through extensive website resources, initiatives, social media outreach and participation in media interviews, webinars, and public programs. The Organization promotes medicalprofessionals training and career development through digital education partnerships that offer continued education as well as attending and presenting at health education conferences. Additionally, The Organization provides administrative support, materials, and oversight for two different support groups:1. Schizophrenia Alliance self-help/ peer support groups, which are run by and for people diagnosed with psychiatric brain disorders that include psychosis.2. Families for Care which is a peer support group for families of those with schizophrenia or schizophrenia-relatedbrain illnesses.

Policy & System Level Change: The Organization backs federal, state, and local policies with the best chances to save lives, advocate for patients rights to life sustaining treatments/services and medical professionals ability to provide such treatments without judicial oversight. The Organization empowers community members to join movements against discrimination of people with schizophrenia and psychosis disorders, including meetings with Congressmembers and by hosting capitol hill briefings.The Organization also promotes public awareness of anosognosia as a neurological condition advances initiatives such as petitioning the World Health Organization to update its International Classification of Diseases by accurately classifying anosognosia as a highly prevalent neurological condition to make it easier for patients with anosognosia to receive proper care.