Recovery Is Key for Mental Health Action Agenda (Part 2)
Stakeholder Support
Support for the Action Agenda comes not only from within
the Federal Government but also from stakeholder organizations.
The Campaign for Mental Health Reform is a coalition
of 16 national mental health organizations. The Campaign's
Director, Charles G. Konigsberg, applauded "SAMHSA's
coordination of multiple Federal agencies in developing
an Agenda to follow up on the Commission."
At the National Association for the Mentally Ill, Executive
Director Michael Fitzpatrick hailed the Action Agenda
as "an important first step in defining the role
that the Federal Government can play, in partnership
with states and communities, in establishing a coherent
and cohesive mental health system in America."
According to Robert Glover, Ph.D., Director of NASMHPD,
"A series of important activities have occurred
that we believe will fundamentally change the way we
care for people with mental illnesses and improve and
save many lives—the creation of the President's
New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the issuance
of the Commission's final report, and now, the release
of SAMHSA's Transforming
Mental Health Care in America—The Federal Action
Agenda: First Steps."
Dr. Glover continued, "This Action Agenda dedicates
virtually every agency of the Federal Government to the
goal articulated by the President more than 3 years ago
in his Executive Order: That all people with mental disorders
live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities."
For a print copy of Transforming
Mental Health Care in America—The Federal Action
Agenda: First Steps, contact the National Mental
Health Information Center, P.O. Box 42490, Washington,
DC 20015. Telephone: 1 (800) 789-2647 or 1 (866)
889-2647 (TTY). For an electronic copy of the Action
Agenda, visit SAMHSA's Web site at www.samhsa.gov/Federalactionagenda/NFC_TOC.aspx.
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