A Montgomery Community Media article announces Maryland’s Thomas Bloom Raskin Act, which was signed into law in April and will go into effect July 1, establishing an opt-in mental health services program through which people can “receive regular wellness calls or texts.”
Tommy Raskin ’17 was a Harvard Law student at the time of his death by suicide in December 2020. The article describes him as “a poet, an enthusiastic Boggle player, a vegan and a political person who cared [for] all people and animals.” Raskin was the son of U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin and Amherst Trustee Sarah Bloom Raskin ’83, as well as the brother of Hannah Raskin ’14 and Tabitha Raskin ’20.
“I know countless lives will be saved because of this law that now bears your son’s name,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told Jamie Raskin, thanking him “for your willingness to channel your own grief in order to help address the mental health crises in Maryland and across America.”