{"product_id":"no-saints-here-a-cautionary-tale-of-mental-illness-health-and-the-cost-of-ignorance-in-the-lone-star-state-paperback","title":"No Saints Here: A Cautionary Tale of Mental Illness, Health, and the Cost of Ignorance in the Lone Star State - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaudette Fette\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAaron Fette\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Fette lived with mental illness all his life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt age 15, he envisioned himself as a modern-day Jack Kerouac, living \u003c\/b\u003ean adventure on the road that he would chronicle in his writing. Instead, he found himself fleeing from paranoid delusions that drove him from city to city. As a victim of abuse and someone who perpetuated violence, as a drug addict and alcoholic, and as a survivor of the US justice system, Aaron's story offers a unique perspective on some of the thorniest issues in our society today. He died of an opioid overdose in a homeless encampment under Interstate 35 in Fort Worth, Texas, on April 2, 2017. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His mother, Claudette, alternates his narrative with her own, walking through a clear-eyed self-appraisal as a teenage mom struggling to support her son, who started life with many adverse childhood experiences and her own failures throughout his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Aaron's life illustrates the consequences of that abuse as it reverberated through the rest of his life. When he landed on the streets at fifteen years old after numerous ineffective interventions, Claudette became an occupational therapist, and later a college professor, seeking to better enable youth, families, and people living with mental illness in her community. She began to understand where systems had failed them, and the search led her to communities of family advocates and other professionals who were developing best practices in mental health. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Claudette weaves Aaron's first-person accounts of his struggles together with her own. \u003ci\u003eNo Saints Here \u003c\/i\u003epresents their experiences as a cautionary tale while offering better alternatives based on Claudette's years as a scholar and therapist. They share their hard lessons to encourage us to reject ignorance and accelerate the development of a smarter, healthier culture for generations to follow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive decades ago, Claudette Fette was a teenage mom struggling to support her son, Aaron, who started life with many adverse childhood experiences and would go on to develop serious mental illness. After years of school failure, ineffective therapies, and an abusive treatment center, Aaron, at age fifteen, landed on the streets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Claudette became an occupational therapist, seeking to better support youth, families, and people living with mental illness in her community. Her search led her to communities of family advocates and other professionals who were developing best practices in mental health. \u003cbr\u003e When Aaron died of an overdose in 2017, Claudette began transcribing his writing, combining her experience as his mom with evidence-based alternatives. \u003ci\u003eNo Saint's Here: A Cautionary Tale of Mental Illness, Health, and the Cost of Ignorance in the Lone Star State\u003c\/i\u003e pulls together their experiences and walks through evidence-based mental health practices in early childhood, school mental health, trauma, wraparound, mental health and substance use recovery, and restorative justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Claudette has worked in mental health for nearly three decades across many settings including acute psychiatric hospital, homeless shelters, schools and community practice. She teaches about mental health at Texas Woman's University School of Occupational Therapy. She has served on multiple advisory boards, including the Federation of Families -- Texas, National Wraparound Initiative, and the National Community of Practice on School Behavioral Health. She currently serves on advisories for the National Family Support Technical Assistance Center and the Advancing School Mental Health conference. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 474\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45814999023813,"sku":"9781965766064","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/M8zFWnZ-q19781965766064.webp?v=1771014937","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/no-saints-here-a-cautionary-tale-of-mental-illness-health-and-the-cost-of-ignorance-in-the-lone-star-state-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}