Lots of mental health facilities won't take people with substance abuse problems. Or places for substance abuse treatment can't help with mental issues.

We believe there is a real shortage of treatment programs for people with mental health illness. To some degree, it is reflective of a very serious housing shortage problem in Lee County. For some of our people, homelessness has been an issue.

You have to be looking at substance abuse; you have to be looking at mental health issues; you have to be looking at poverty. [They have] a reputation for working in silos. None of them really work together.

[We use] the arts to help people with mental health issues back into the mainstream and having a patron of the stature of Roger Waters will help us immensely. Roger was born and brought up in Cambridge and, through his work and life with Syd Barrett in the early days of Pink Floyd, has a good understanding of the enormous difficulties that mental illness can cause.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

The problem now is that often, mental health problems are not recognized until late, ... We want to make sure that we bring the best treatment to bear in this system. We want to make sure that we continue to research.