Passionate advocacy is important, but lawmakers make decisions based on undeniable proof. We are collecting and formatting real-world clinical abandonment stories into a unified forensic evidence base that legislators cannot legally ignore.

Your story is the ground-truth evidence needed to push SB 1016 across the finish line. Please select and download the specific Microsoft Word template below that best fits your professional or lived-experience role:

• For Family Members & Caregivers: Download this template if you are a parent, relative, or proxy record-keeper who has been locked out by privacy walls, ignored by clinicians, or forced to watch a loved one cycle through the dismissal void alone. [ Download Caregiver Story Template (Word) ]

• For Medical Professionals & Clinicians: Download this template if you are a psychiatrist, ER doctor, nurse, or social worker who has witnessed patients routinely discharged into homelessness or carceral settings due to a lack of mandatory clinical pathways. [ Download Medical Professional Template (Word) ]

• For First Responders & Law Enforcement: Download this template if you are a CIT officer, paramedic, or mobile crisis responder who has been forced to act as a de facto mental health worker because upstream healthcare systems defaulted to crisis containment. [ Download First Responder Template (Word) ]

How to Submit: Once you have downloaded and completed your role-specific Word document, click the submission button below to email your file directly to our California policy team.