NYAPRS Note: NYAPRS is very pleased and excited about Keris Myrick’s appointment as Director of Consumer Affairs at the federal Center for Mental Health Services. Keris is well recognized as a national leader who has run innovative peer programs in LA, just completed a term at NAMI President and is a close colleague and articulate proponent for recovery. You can see more about Keris at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/health/23lives.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0. Congratulations Keris!
The following announcement came from top national mental health Ron Manderscheid, who will be a featured speaker on both Federal Policy Update and on Peer Services and the ACA at NYAPRS’ September 17-19 Annual Conference. See more at https://rms.nyaprs.org/event/?page=CiviCRM&q=civicrm/event/info&reset=1&id=13.
Dear Colleagues:
I am delighted to report that Keris Myrick became Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs at the Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, on July 1.
She is a national mental health leader and non-profit executive, known for her innovative and inclusive approach to mental health reform and the public disclosure of her personal story of lived experience with serious mental illness. Most recently, she has been President and CEO of Project Return Peer Support Network, a Los Angeles-based, peer-run nonprofit, which manages over 100 self-help groups in Los Angeles County, a peer-staffed Warm Line, a Spanish language community peer and family center and Peer Run Crises Respite Home.
In addition, she has been the President of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and an advisor to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Office of Minority and National Affairs (OMNA) providing assistance with the psychiatry component of the SAMHSA/CMHS Recovery to Practice project. Ms. Myrick has a Master of Science degree in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology of Alliant International University. Her Master of Business Administration degree, with an emphasis on marketing, is from Case Western Reserve University.
Please join me in providing a very warm welcome to Keris as she joins our Washington DC community.
Ron
Executive Director,
Natl Assn of Co Beh Hlth & Dev Dis Dirs/www.nacbhdd.org
25 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Ste 500
Washington, DC 20001
The Voice of Local Authorities in the Nation’s Capital!
202-942-4296 (O); 202-553-1827 (M); rmanderscheid@nacbhd.org
&
Immediate Past President
ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership/www.acmha.org
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