Don’t Miss The Latest Key Update from the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse!

The Key Update has served as one of the widely read and respected periodicals serving the nation’s rights, recovery, survivor and peer support communities over the past two decades, thanks to the tireless dedication of Susan Rogers, Director of the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse. Our Alliance Board was very pleased to honor Susan’s extraordinary efforts with our 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. 

You can click on the link below to view the Key’s January-February issue. Please pay special attention to the first article, that encourages readers to sign on a petition authored by Paolo del Vecchio that urges Congress to support recovery policies and programs by:

1. Funding community-based mental health and addictions services including recovery support services, Housing First and harm reduction approaches,
2. Retaining key federal agencies-including SAMHSA- along with staff, and,
3. Blocking all expansion of long-term institutional and coercive care.

Action Alert! Sign the Petition: Just Say No to Long-Term Institutional Care!

“If you believe access to community-based mental health and addiction services should be protected and supported, add your voice to the petition calling on Congress to support recovery….People with these conditions…desperately need help attaining the essential supports to achieve and sustain recovery – access to health and behavioral health care, housing, employment, and peer support. Instead of help, the Trump administration has hindered opportunities for recovery” including massive funding cuts, federal staff and agency eliminations, harmful policy changes and curtailed enforcement of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act.” President Trump “issued an Executive Order that calls for the return to the failed past policies of long term institutionalization, criminalization and coercion while ending support for proven harm reduction and Housing First approaches…. By signing this petition, you are speaking out and demanding Congress support recovery.” To sign the petition, click here. (Note: If you use Chrome and have trouble signing the petition, you may need to switch to another web browser.) (Courtesy of Paolo del Vecchio via Harvey Rosenthal) 

The National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse is affiliated with the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion. For a free subscription to the monthly Key Update, send an email to selfhelpclearinghouse@gmail.com with Subscribe in the subject line. To contact: The Clearinghouse: email Selfhelpclearinghouse@Gmail.Com, Susan.Rogers.Advocacy@Gmail.com and Jrogers08034@Gmail.Com