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Transcript: NAMI-SYSLE East Los Angeles Custody Officers…
The following is a transcript of Jason W. Park address to East Los Angeles Custody Officers on May 9, 2025, via the NAMI-SYSLE (National Alliance on Mental Ilnnes, Sharing Your…
Overworked, underpaid and unappreciated: Sound familiar?
Americans are finding “nice work if you can get it” an increasingly unlikely scenario. Whether down on the farm or high atop the skyscraper, manufacturing goods or providing services, at…
American Dream or American Nightmare? Choose wisely!
For many people living and working in this country, the American Dream defines their aspirations. By hard work and meaningful sacrifices, Americans can reach their lifelong goals, whether a short-order…
Address to the Santa Clarita Sheriff –…
Santa Clarita Sheriff Station, Santa Clarita, CA – Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 12 pm Hi everyone. My name is Jason, and as someone who lives with mental illness representing NAMI’s…
Third term president vs. No Kings Act
I have been getting strange texts on my phone for months now. The two most memorable catchphrases I can recall are “third term president”and “No Kings Act” precisely because they…
Battle Royale in Pittsburgh — the Case…
U.S. Steel has been in the news quite a bit within the last couple of years. It is enough to confuse the savviest of strategists. To make sense of it…
Hey Hegseth — for Pete’s sake, get…
Pete Hegseth’s appointment to lead the Department of Defense involved the slimmest of margins and required the tie-breaking vote of Vice President JD Vance, 51-50. However, this was not before…
Trump has a clean slate; we’ll see…
President-elect Donald Trump will wield what he calls an “unprecedented and powerful mandate” handed to him by voters to help him reach his goals. There is no doubt on the…
Prevent school shootings: How Republicans, Democrats and…
After college, I was saddled with a mental illness so severe that it became time to call in the cavalry. My family, friends, physicians and professors supported my Ph.D. training,…
Lessons from Apalachee High School — gun…
On Sept. 4, 14-year-old Colt Gray armed himself with an AR-platform gun and shot and killed four individuals and wounded another nine at Apalachee High School near Winder, Ga. Is…
Keeping guns from falling in the wrong…
On April 30, four police officers were killed in a shooting while attempting to serve a warrant at a home in Charlotte, N.C. Four other law enforcement officers were wounded…
The Crumbley case — who else should…
Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of Ethan Crumbley, who killed four students in a 2021 school shooting in Oxford, Mich., were each sentenced April 9 to 10-15 years in…
Gun rights, gun control, gun violence
An Illinois federal judge recently ruled that the Constitution protects the gun rights of noncitizens who enter the U.S. illegally. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Coleman dropped firearm possession charges…
Gun rights, gun control, gun violence
A pending case before the Supreme Court, United States v. Rahimi, addresses the broad question of Second Amendment interpretation and how closely the nation’s laws should be compared to the…
Commonsense thoughts on gun rights, gun control,…
Jennifer Crumbley’s conviction for her son’s school shooting is a sea change in the public’s view of gun violence. My own parents could have suffered the same fate as hers…
Timing of Mass Shootings Offers Clue to…
Yet another senseless tragedy has occurred, the latest at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa. A school shooting leaving one dead and five wounded starts 2024 inauspiciously. However, we need…
Empower families to help with mental health
It was October 2012, and I was running amok through the city of Pittsburgh. I was down to my last day in a posh hotel room before I maxed out…
Address mental illness, Drug Addiction in tandem
Park is a mental health advocate and author of the memoir/self-help book “Bliss + Blues = Bipolar: A Memoir of my Ups and Downs Living with Bipolar Disorder.” He lives in…
Jason Park: A 3-part strategy to reduce…
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been more than 60 mass shootings so far in 2023 — almost two a day. As a formerly untreated mentally ill person…
I could have been a mass shooter.…
A mass shooting occurs every 8.3 days in California on average, according to the Gun Violence Archive. This past weekend, one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern California history…
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