Our Team & Mission

Shattering the Silence in California

The California Chapter of the National Shattering Silence Coalition (NSSC) is a rapidly expanding legislative force within our 31-State Alliance. Directed by State Policy Director Jacqueline Janssen alongside Southern California Regional Policy Director June Dudas, our all-volunteer coalition is mobilizing to mandate a new era of mental health care across all 58 counties in the Golden State.

We established our unified California leadership structure to scale a singular mission: dismantling the state’s catastrophic Standard of Neglect. By weaponizing ground-truth evidence, leveraging the proven Marin Model of family partnership, and fighting for structural legislative guardrails like SB 1016, our directors are actively turning family heartbreak into enforceable state mandates.

Our rapidly growing membership represents an unyielding coalition of families, peers, and clinical professionals who have survived the failures of California’s emergency departments, CARE Courts, and forensic systems. We bring the forensic clarity and strategic urgency required to end the criminalization of no-fault brain disease and guarantee that continuous medical treatment is the default response for Serious Mental Illness in the Golden State.

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Meet Your California Leadership Team

Jacqueline Janssen

California State Director

A UC Berkeley graduate and former County Mental Health Commissioner, Jacqueline leverages decades of policy insight to reform California's mental health system. As author of Every Homeless Person Has a Mother, she is a leading advocate for clinical accountability and the inclusion of families in the treatment process.

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June Dudas

SoCal Regional Policy Director

June brings nearly three decades of management expertise in municipal government to map out complex public systems. Driven by 50 years of lived experience supporting family members through severe mental illness, anosognosia, and systemic entanglement, she actively shapes regional policy through local working groups, county advisory panels on conservatorship reform, and targeted legislative alerts.

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Baani G.

Intern

Baani aims to advance youth mental health and women's wellness through her passion for community engagement. She leads the Her Mind Project, promoting menstrual equity for unhoused and mentally ill women, while serving as an advisor for a peer support app for two years. Additionally, she drives systemic change by contributing to student advisory boards and engaging in legislative advocacy to amplify youth perspectives in policy decisions.

Khloe T.

Intern

Khloe Tan is a high school senior and vice president of her school’s HOSA- Future Health Professionals chapter. She has been involved in her school’s Biomedical Sciences program for four years, where her experiences with healthcare initiatives have sparked a strong interest in healthcare, advocacy, and improving access to support for others. Witnessing mental health crises among her peers has had a lasting impact on Khloe and deepened her interest in mental health advocacy, particularly among youth. She hopes to use her experience in healthcare initiatives to raise awareness about mental illness and help reduce the stigma surrounding mental health among young people. Outside of her academic work, Khloe is a member of her school’s varsity girls tennis team and volunteers at a local hospital. She hopes to pursue a career as a labor and delivery nurse, where she can combine her passion for healthcare with compassionate, patient-centered care.