“I’m just like everybody around here”: Brant’s story
March 25, 2026 | 2-minute read
Spend a day with him, and you’ll hear stories about his family and former life as a car detailer. You’ll learn he likes going for walks, drinking coffee, being kind and listening to '90s music on his CD collection.
His name is Brant — and he also lives with schizophrenia.
Brant has lived at a residential treatment home near Portland, OR for about a year. The staff working there provide care and support for people living with schizophrenia and other serious and persistent mental health conditions.
A key part of that support is medication management — and the team partners with Genoa Healthcare pharmacy to ensure their clients get the treatment they need. With over 750 pharmacies across the U.S., Genoa works closely with care teams at residential and outpatient facilities to help people living with behavioral health conditions get — and stay on — their medications.
As a facility administrator for Brant’s treatment home, Ty Walker has seen how differently schizophrenia can present. He has also seen how treating it with the right medications can make a meaningful difference for the clients he serves.
“For some people, it's just constant background noise,” says Ty. “It's information they maybe don't want in their head, happening at all times. Some doubt the entirety of the world around them — whether it’s real or not real, whether they should listen to the things around them. There can be a lot of confusion.”
Between navigating external factors, like regulations, and internal challenges, like his clients' symptoms and behaviors, Ty says there’s not much he and his team can fully control in their day-to-day work — except for their medications.
“The one place we can be sure we’re giving [our clients] the care they need is how and when they get their medications,” says Ty. “That's the place that we have to be a hundred percent on as much as we possibly can. So having a pharmacy that we can rely on is huge.”
Brant wraps up the day with a tour of his room and his CD collection. He says music makes him feel inspired, and he likes where he lives and making others smile.
“My medications make me feel like I am feeling even better,” says Brant. “And I'm just like everybody around here.”