Building Bridges Campaign for Mental Health
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The Mailing List

The mailing list is moderated by Wil Hostman, Jan's McGillivary's assistant. It is hosted by ONELIST.COM. Note that if you subscribe, you will get advertisments with the messages; this is how ONELIST supports themselves. They provide the service at no charge to us.

The mailing list's goal is to provide for a means of distributing information and discussing the Building Bridges Campaign for mental health. All members of the Alaskan Mental Health Community are welcome, including Providers, Consumers (Primary and Secondary), Advocates, Administrators, and legislators.

The Coordinator for the Building Bridges Campaign is Jan McGillivary.

Bridges Activities

The Building Bridges Campaign has several activities, the most important being the Bridges Fly-In to Juneau. Each year, the Building Bridges Campaign flys consumers and advocates in to Juneau, the state capitol, to meet with legislators, attend workshops, and advocate for a better mental health system in the state of Alaska. We both provide training in mental health advocacy and provide an opportunity for advocates to meet with legislators. While some scholarships are made available each year, many attend at their own expense.

The Building Bridges Campaign also holds training throughout the year in advocacy, and presents certain materials of interest via various means.

Advocacy: from the Latin, Ad vocare: to speak for, to plead the cause of another, to make others care.

Mission Statement

Empower mental health consumers, their families, providers and advocates.
Turn awareness into action for Alaska's mentally ill and emotionally disturbed citizens.
Increase state funding for community based services and programs serving persons experiencing mental illnesses and emotional disturbances.
Facilitate a grass roots effort to positively effect the legislative and other public policy decision making processes.
Increase cohesiveness within Alaska's mental health community.
Advance principles of Life Domains and coordinate with other advocacy efforts in Alaska.
Advance principles of parity within the insurance industry.

Definitions

Advocacy: from the Latin, Ad vocare: to speak for, to plead the cause of another, to make others care.
Primary Consumer: someone who recieves treatment for or experiences mental illness or a mental health disorder.
Secondary Consumer: A spouse, child, parent, sibling, domestic partner, or roomate of a primary consumer.
Provider: One who provides treatment for mental illness, mental health disorders, or related services.
Mental Health Advocate: One who works to improve the system, or the lives of mental health consumers, by speaking out on behalf of others who experience mental illnesses or mental health disorders.

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