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Angeline Davis serves as the Kentucky State Policy Director for the National  Shattering Silence Coalition, where she advocates for compassionate, evidence-informed reform for individuals living with severe mental illness, co-occurring disorders (COD), and those who are justice-involved. Her commitment to this work is deeply personal. After losing multiple family members to addiction and spending years navigating the behavioral health and legal systems while seeking adequate care for her adult son with schizoaffective disorder, Angeline became a dedicated advocate for families facing similar barriers. These experiences shaped her mission to advance policies that ensure timely, appropriate, and lifesaving intervention for individuals in psychiatric crisis.

Angeline is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Brighter Days Inc., a nonprofit organization providing trauma-informed, family-structured, and integrated stabilization services for individuals with SUD, COD, and justice involvement. Brighter Days Inc. is developing a long-term, relational model of care that includes residential stabilization, transitional living, mobile aftercare, and ongoing treatment-team support. She is also leading the development of a five-phase stabilization model for individuals experiencing psychosis, emphasizing the need for acute inpatient care, residential treatment, transitional living, mobile aftercare, and long-term community integration.
 
In addition to her nonprofit leadership, Angeline serves as the Secretary of the Kentucky Behavioral Health Planning and Advisory Council, where she collaborates with state leaders, providers, and community stakeholders to strengthen Kentucky’s behavioral health continuum. She also works as an Instructional Systems Designer supporting the United States Armed Forces, specializing in adult learning, trauma-informed curriculum development, and accessible training systems.
 
Angeline is committed to legislative and systems change, particularly the urgent need to expand inpatient psychosis criteria beyond the narrow “danger to self or others” threshold. She works alongside healthcare providers, law enforcement,  policymakers, and families to promote earlier, safer, and more humane intervention—preventing the all-too-common outcomes of incarceration, homelessness, victimization, or death among individuals with untreated SMI. 

Angeline holds a background in education and instructional design and is currently earning her Master of Social Work at Spalding University. She will begin her Doctor of Social Work at the University of Southern California in June 2026.  Her work is driven by the belief that every individual deserves access to timely stabilization, compassionate care, and a path toward long-term recovery—and that families should never have to fight alone for the help their loved ones need.