Media & Conversations
Real Conversations. Difficult Questions. A System That Must Change.
Join Kimberly Bowman for candid conversations about severe mental illness, criminalization, family advocacy and the fight to create real care.
Through podcast interviews, speaking engagements and thought-provoking discussions, Kimberly combines professional expertise with lived experience to challenge conventional thinking, elevate overlooked voices and explore what it will take to build a mental health system that truly works.
FEATURED INTERVIEW
Severe Mental Illness, Criminalization, and the Fight to Create Real Care
When Mental Illness Meets a System That Was Never Built to Care
What happens when families desperately seek treatment for a loved one experiencing severe mental illness, only to encounter a system that repeatedly fails them?
In this conversation, Kimberly Bowman, author of The System We Never Built: Severe Mental Illness, Criminalization, and the Fight to Create Real Care, draws on decades of personal experience and professional leadership to explore the intersection of severe mental illness, homelessness, incarceration and America's fragmented mental health system.
It's a conversation about the realities families face, the consequences of inadequate treatment and the urgent need to create meaningful, lasting change.