Updates on the Ruby Rogers drop-in center including financial planning and improved group dynamics. Discussing planned speaking engagements and attendance at various conferences as well as a planned training session for the staff of the State Office of Handicapped Affairs in Massachusetts. Recounting a meeting of the coordinating committee and demonstration by NAMP during the American Psychiatric Association meeting in Chicago. Lamenting the general state of mental health care in the country, with particular attention to National Alliance on Mental Illness and the American Mental Health Fund as well as rising reliance on state hospitals and difficulty maintaining patient controlled alternatives due to issues like zoning.
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