N E W S A D V I S O R Y
Consumer Advocates Tell Policy Makers, Public Tomorrow:
Focus of State Mental Health Services Redesign
Must Be on Promoting our Recovery in the Community
Contact: Glenn Liebman, MHANYS 518-360-7916
Briana Gilmore, NYAPRS 518-436-0008
WHAT: Statewide representatives of New Yorkers with psychiatric disabilities will come to Albany tomorrow to back OMH plans to consolidate 24 state hospitals into 15 regional centers and to urge that mental health reform must focus on redeploying the workforce and reinvesting mental health dollars to fill the cracks and strengthen community recovery systems of care. They will urge that the ‘jobs should follow and support’ recovery in the community.
WHEN: Noon Tuesday July 16, 2013
WHO: Carla Rabinowitz, NYC Maura Kelley, Buffalo
Kathryn Cascio, Albany Stephanie Orlando, Albany
Others To be Announced
WHERE: LCA Room 130 Legislative Office Building Albany