Losing Tim : how our health and education systems failed my son with schizophrenia / Paul Gionfriddo.

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Tim brings a gun to school -- Tim gets his start -- Our introduction to special education -- A new school, a new crisis -- Suspended animation -- Rocketing through middle school -- High school cooks up trouble -- West to the Northwest -- Hospitalization from the Northwest to Middletown -- Tim comes to Austin -- AmeriCorps and the chain of neglect -- Tim begins adult life -- Tim hits the revolving door -- Launching Tim -- Tim returns to Middletown -- Epilogue.

The author's son Tim is one of the '6 percent' -- an American with serious mental illness. He is also one of the half million homeless people with serious mental illnesses underserved or ignored by the US health and social-service systems. This exposé describes how Tim and others like him come to live on the street. The text takes stock of the numerous injustices that confronted Tim from the time he first began to show symptoms of schizophrenia, which included inadequate educational supports, isolation, and his encounters with the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems.

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