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Report of the Presidents New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
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The Campaign for Mental Health Reform is a collaboration of 17 national health organizations, representing millions of Americans, dedicated to making mental health a national priority and early access, recovery and quality in mental health services the hallmarks of our nation’s mental health system.
Click on the image for your invitation to the annual awards dinner. For information on sponsorship and tickets download the reply card (PDF file). About the CampaignThe President’s New
Freedom Commission on Mental Health said in its interim report that
the nation’s
mental health system is “in
shambles.” The Commission’s final report calls for “transformation” of
a system that today perpetuates a shameful waste of lives and resources. The
Campaign issued a report on how this should occur: The Campaign for Mental Health Reform has been organized as the mental health community’s united voice on federal policy. Its goal is to make access, recovery, coherence, and quality in mental health services the hallmarks of our nation’s mental health system. It works directly with federal policymakers to make this a reality. Collaboration of national mental health organizations on the scale of the Campaign for Mental Health Reform is unprecedented. The Campaign’s partners have been brought together by a common recognition that the current challenges and environment present an unavoidable need as well as the best opportunity in a generation to make a well-functioning mental health system a national priority.
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 One of every two Americans who need mental health treatment do not receive it, and the rate is even lower —and the quality of care poorer—for ethnic and racial minorities. |
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