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MadFreedom Advocates

Photos hang from the railing of the Putney Tavern during a July 14 vigil to honor the life of Scott Garvey, who was killed in his home by a Vermont state trooper on July 7.

Mr. Garvey did not need to die

This preventable death occurred despite the presence of a mental health professional on the scene, despite years of statewide policy development, and despite a widely publicized prior tragedy in 2016


Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc., a grassroots, nonprofit organization run by and for psychiatric survivors, mad folks, and others marginalized by the mental health system. "We're working towards equal rights, better services, and ending discrimination," they write. "MadFreedom Advocates works across Vermont to support leadership, education, and advocacy for people with lived experience of trauma, institutionalization, neurodivergence, extreme states, or other marginalization by sanism."...

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