The will to change our system of care exists. That’s why we’re calling, urgently, for an Alignment for Progress—an action-oriented coming together of vision, commitment, and investment with the goal of redirecting the future of care. Our work will be aimed at clearing paths to parity; furthering the advancement of evidence-based practices, politics, and programming; and overseeing a measurable movement towards population-level progress and change.
Aligning for progress will entail the large-scale coordination of a strategic vision uniting stakeholders across aisle and industry—including mental health advocates, substance use and recovery clinicians and advocates, business leaders, insurers, politicians, and government agencies. The vision will aim to fill a solutions void at both the grassroots and systems level and grow a movement to reshape broken systems. The work will include bridging medical, psychiatric, therapeutic, and social components to build a unified model of care.