Patrick J. Kennedy: “the process to seek help should not be a barrier to receiving help.”

Our family believes in democracy. We believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down his life in World War II fighting Hitler over Germany, got shot down.

We keep these illnesses secret. And these illnesses being secret are the reason why they are exacerbated.

It is not working. That is what you essentially have said.

When we have an emergency, FEMA comes in. They've got housing, job opportunities, support of this and that. We need a strategy that understands that housing is critical to address the homeless epidemic of people with severe mental illness…