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    • ABOUT US
    • STRATEGIC ROADMAP
    • TEAM
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • STATE DIRECTORS >
      • MEET YOUR 31 DIRECTORS
      • AL: Holly Strayer
      • AK: Krista Schooley
      • AZ: Crystal Fox
      • CA: Jacqueline Janssen
      • CT: Melissa Valdivia
      • DE: Heidi Nasstrom Evans
      • FL: Joanne Schmitz
      • FL: Jack Wood
      • IN: David Doerner
      • GA: Daniel White
      • HI: Chad Koyangi
      • IL: Cindy Tank-Murphy
      • KY: Angeline Davis
      • MA: Lynda Cutrell
      • ME: John Nutting
      • MI: Carla Van Farowe
      • NH: Mara Briere
      • NJ: Chip Angell
      • NC: Beth Wallace
      • OH: Darrell Herrmann
      • OR: Breanna Smith
      • PA: Marcie Sohara
      • PA: Carter Hawley
      • RI: Ruth Scott
      • SC: Susan Lea
      • TX: Julie Plank
      • UT: Sherri Wittwer
      • VA: Mary Troy
      • WA: Leanna May Franklin
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National Vision. Local Impact.

Mobilizing Our
State Directors

Invest in Reform →

From Lived Experience to Clinical Authority:
​Ending Systemic Neglect

You have navigated the system’s failure. Now, join us as we formalize medical accountability and mandate treatment
for our loved ones.

Since 2022, NSSC has scaled from a grassroots collective to a high-impact network of 31 State Directors—a 3,100% increase in regional leadership. We have moved beyond awareness and into systemic intervention. Our Directors are now the primary bridge between families in crisis and the policy changes required to end abandonment and demand accountability.

Today, we are professionalizing our infrastructure to ensure our leaders have the standing and resources required to
​engage effectively at the highest levels to finalize reform.

A Window for Systemic Change

​As the national crises of ER boarding and the criminalization of SMI become impossible to ignore, NSSC is prepared to provide the strategic frameworks and evidence-based resources required to fix a failing system.
​This is our moment to mandate treatment over abandonment.
The Engagement NSSC leaders are the subject matter experts prepared to brief policymakers, legal stakeholders, and clinical leadership on the status quo's failure.
The Request Our State Directors are requesting the professional assets required to command the room and drive policy outcomes in their respective states.
The Mission Matching elite expertise with the professional infrastructure required to move the needle on state-level reform.

END THE NEGLECT. INVEST IN THE REFORM.

No family should have to fight this battle in isolation. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a fragmented and indifferent system on our own. We have been the ones making the calls, attending the hearings, and begging for a
"standard of care" that doesn’t exist.

Your investment ensures that NSSC is on the ground, where the fight is. By funding our State Directors, you are ensuring that every family has an advocate who understands their pain and a leader who can command professional respect at the state house. This is our chance to turn our 1,000-member coalition into a 50-state engine for accountability.

Together, we are ensuring that no family is left to face a "standard of neglect" alone. Your support builds the
​front lines of reform.

$50

Truth-Teller

Funds 100 Strategic Resource Guides to provide lawmakers, judges, and prosecutors with the "Ground Truth" of
the SMI crisis.

Outcome: Informed Justice

$100

Ambassador

Funds the Executive Identity Suite, ensuring State Directors have the professional elite standing to engage with stakeholders in
state capitals.

Outcome: Executive Standing

$250

Convener

Sponsors NSSC Presence at community events and conferences with professional branding and Strategic Resource Guides needed to lead the state conversation.

Outcome: Regional Influence

$1,000

Strategist

Fully underwrites One State’s Infrastructure for a year of operational support, specialized outreach, and legislative reform.

Outcome: Systemic Change
INVEST IN REFORM. DONATE TODAY.

OUR EXPANSION is underway

NSSC is the only national organization providing the specialized bridge between lived experience and clinical-legal authority. Led by a multidisciplinary board of medical, legal, policy and lived experience experts, we move beyond traditional advocacy to provide the strategic frameworks required to replace a system of neglect with a system of care.

We don’t just identify the problem; we provide the infrastructure and the solutions to solve it.​

If your organization or foundation is interested in sponsoring or partnering in this national expansion, please contact us
to schedule an Executive Briefing.

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