2025 Redefining Crazy: Rewriting the Rules
Join us as we continue to challenge perceptions and inspire change in mental health at our annual RCC conference.
About the Conference
The Mental Health Association of San Francisco proudly presents our fifth annual conference: “2025 Redefining Crazy: Rewriting the Rules”. The Redefining Crazy Conference is a gathering focused on challenging traditional perceptions and approaches to mental health. It aims to explore innovative strategies, empower individuals with lived experience, and foster collaboration among mental health experts, advocates, and policymakers to create positive change in the field.
MAY 14-16, 2025
The Grand Hyatt Hotel
345 Stockton St
San Francisco, CA 94108
Keynote Speakers
We are honored to announce that our main keynote speaker for this year's RCC is none other than the legendary Angela Davis.
Now is the perfect time to join us as a sponsor and align your brand with this exciting event that fosters impactful conversations and lasting change.
Past Year Themes & Tracks
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Hoarding Disorder & Collecting Behaviors
Peer to Peer - Weaving Our Own Safety Net
Fostering Peer Success - Tools for Every Industry
Peer Responses - Models for Prevention, Crisis & Recovery
Our 2024 Conference: “Redefining Crazy: It’s the System, Not the People,” was truly a powerful mental health community experience. April of 2024 marked MHASF’s first in-person conference in five years—and it was overwhelming to bring together peer leaders, advocates, community-based providers, stakeholders, tech innovators, and government officials. Together in a collaborative and actionable learning environment we convened to advance strategies of stigma reduction, care reform, and peer support in our mental health system. This three day conference was a vibrant symposium of ideas and inspiration, all thanks to the tireless efforts and committed experience of our community.
Our keynote presenters represented a full array of mental health, from the arts to the public sector. On day one, attendees were captivated with filmmaker, author, and activist Sera Davidow, as she illuminated the ways in which society vastly underestimates the power of loss of power and the devastating impact of treatment systems in conversation with Cherene Caraco, a psychiatric, trauma and suicide attempt survivor. The following day, Director of the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives Honey Mahogany presented an engaging historical reflection on how systems of mental health in San Francisco benefit from the advocacy of communities directly impacted.
Tracks
Hoarding & Cluttering
Communities Reclaiming Wellness
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Hoarding & Cluttering
Opportunities in the “New Normal”
Communities Reclaiming Wellness
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Progress Not Perfection
Collecting Souls
Healing Treasures & Tragedies
