Acting Commissioner Kristin M. Woodlock, RN,
MPA
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
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- Ruchika Bajaj, MPH, MSSW, Mental Health Policy and Program Director, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
- Norman B
- Wendy Brennan, Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York City Metro
- Teena Brooks, MSW, Co-President, New York Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, and Director of Social Work for the Mental Health Project, Urban Justice Center
- Judith Carrington, President, Mental Health Resources
- Angela Cerio, CPRP, Director of FUTURE Views
- Teddy Chen, PhD, LCSW, Mental Health Bridge Program Director, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center
- Leslie A. F. Cook
- Bruce Dillon, Development Assistant, Community Access
- Kenn Dudek, Executive Director, Fountain House
- Walter Dunn, Advocacy Group – Employment Unit, Fountain House
- Jacques Engelstein, Member, Fountain House Employment Unit
- Rosemary F
- Johnny G
- Jane G
- Michael B. Friedman, LMSW, Director, Center for Policy and Advocacy, Mental Health Associations of New York City and Westchester
- Myla Harrison, MD, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Child and Adolescent Services, Division of Mental Hygiene, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Gerald H
- Irene Kaplan, Board Vice President, Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled
- Jeff Keller, Deputy Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York State and Nora Weinerth, Chair of the Wellness Committee for NAMI NYS
- Leslie Klein. Co-Chair of the New York State Rehabilitation Association Mental Health Division and Director of Adult Rehabilitation Services, Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service
- Paul Levine, LCSW, Executive Vice President and CEO designate, Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, and President, New York State Coalition of Children’s Mental Health Services
- Linda Libby, Deputy Vice President for Behavioral Health, Residential, Homeless and Case Management Services and Patricia Bowles, Vice President of Behavioral Services, Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services
- Willie M
- Michael M
- Lisa Orloff, Executive Director, World Cares Center
- Michael J. Polenberg, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Coalition of Behavioral Health Agencies
- Daniel P
- Carla Rabinowitz, Esq., Community Organizer, Community Access
- Martha C. Rados, MA, LCAT, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
- Anya R
- Barbara Sherman, LCSW, DSW, Clinical and Forensic Social Worker
- Ellen Shuman, Deputy Vice President for Clinical Services, and Patricia Bowles, Vice President for Behavioral Services, Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services
- Andrea Smyth, Executive Director, New York State Coalition for Children’s Mental Health Services
- Kimberly A. Steinhagen, LMSW, Director of the Geriatric Mental Health Alliance of New York, Center for Policy and Advocacy, Mental Health Associations of New York City and Westchester
- Vuka Stricevic, MSSW, JD, Assistant Chairperson, New York State Campaign for Mental Health Housing
- Tee Tellez, Adult Home Project Director, Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled
- Lauren Tenney, Member of FUTURE Views and Mental Patients Liberation Alliance
- Natalie Tobier, LMSW, MPH, Senior Deputy Director, Reproductive and Behavioral Health Programs, Medical and Health Research Association of New York City
- Joyce B. Wale, Senior Assistant Vice President, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Office of Behavioral Health
- Jessica Walker, Senior Policy Analyst, United Neighborhood Houses of New York
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