Dear John,

When our founder, Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, was born in 1937, brain diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were highly stigmatized, dangerously misunderstood, and largely untreatable. People living with these diseases were often confined to mental institutions with poor, sometimes abhorrent, living conditions.  

Dr. Torrey’s life’s work has been to achieve a vision for a future in which people living with severe mental illnesses were no longer caught in a “revolving door” of non-treatment, undertreatment, hospitalization, homelessness, and criminalization.  

Will you help us carry forward Dr. Torrey’s lifelong mission to improve the lives of people with severe mental illness (SMI)? A gift today to the Torrey Action Fund will help ensure no one with SMI is forgotten or left behind.
 

Honor the vision. Continue the mission. That is the heart of our campaign — and the legacy of Dr. Torrey’s decades of tireless work. When others looked away, he saw the humanity and potential in every person living with SMI. He challenged broken systems and offered real solutions when few others would.

Today, we’re building on that vision. Now more than ever, our community is at risk of losing access to affordable treatment, but thanks to bold advocates and supporters like you, we can continue to push for policy change, expanded treatment and resources, and to fight for those most often overlooked.

Together, we can continue what Dr. Torrey started.

Thank you for being part of this work.

With gratitude,


Lisa Dailey
Executive Director

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