Experts Advise on Advocacy Strategies

Michelle O. Clark, M.D. (center), of Los Angeles led a forum titled“ Mental Health Advocacy: Get Involved” at APA's 2004 Institute on Psychiatric Services in Atlanta last month. At right is Pat Strode, interim director of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Georgia, and at left is Ellyn Jaeger of the Georgia Mental Health Association. The forum focused on advocating for services and funding at the local level for children and adults with mental illness and included representatives from the Georgia state legislature and judiciary, as well as clinicians and psychiatric residents interested in advocacy.