The Will to Heal: Hope

Hope Video Transcript:

Al Ballesteros: We have a tremendous problem with individuals that need help.

Tiffany Malone: Data, statistics, just looking at the news will tell you something is very broken. Opioid use disorder, substance use disorder–those numbers are absolutely through the roof.

Patrick Gauthier: We’re at roughly 225 thousand unhoused Californians.

Off-screen: There’s a need everywhere.

Gabriela Jimenez: And if we have the power to do something to help those that are suffering, why not do it.

Marlies Perez: I am a firm believer that out of really terrible things can come greatness.

Tiffany Malone: I would say one of the main problems is access to behavioral health and mental health care services.

Brandon Fernandez: Where we have to repair what’s so deeply broken in our infrastructure today so that the environment looks drastically different.

Patrick Gauthier: The goals for this epic level of investment in infrastructure, workforce, crisis response is access to care.

Andunett Langhum: And that’s really the only way we can do this, right? It’s working on really building out a system, but a robust system.

Marlies Perez: Real system change has to happen at once.

Mark Faucette: This is historic. There’s never been an opportunity like this to build capacity in this kind of way.

Marlies Perez: These are things that are going to be truly lasting, and so when the day is done there’ll actually be these physical structures that build out that access.

Thomas Freese: I think there’s real hope in what California is doing right now. We finally have the opportunity to give people safe environments in which to heal.

Marlies Perez: We have a lot facing us, but we also have this resilient spirit in California and the ability of providers and counties and the state to come together, take what we’ve been learning, and how can we continue to improve it. How do we make it better?

Patrick Gauthier: And remember, we’re doing this to save lives.