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* Promotes mental health and recovery, encourage empowerment in mental health service recipients, eliminate discrimination, raise public awareness with education, and advocate for equality and opportunity for all.

Help people to navigate behavioral health services for themselves and loved ones, offers referrals and follow-up support, advocates with systems when individuals/families are struggling to find help.

Offers a forum for past and present recipients of mental health services to meet and help organize, design and advocate in various ways to change public policy, systems and legislation for mental health-related causes.

Conducts various activities including professional planning forums, clinical training, and a series of annual MICA Conferences. These activities and the Task Force meetings have sought to increase inter-systems collaboration, information exchange, skills building, and advocacy toward better services for those with co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse disorders.

* Promotes mental health and recovery, encourage empowerment in mental health service recipients, eliminate discrimination, raise public awareness with education, and advocate for equality and opportunity for all.

* Provides vital emotional and crisis support services. Services include: On-site face-to-face mental health assessments. Mobile Crisis Team. Referrals to available services. Follow-up from psychiatric hospitalizations. Wellness calls when someone is concerned. Phone assessments. Consultations.

* Provides educational and support programs for the individual living with mental illness and family members. These include: Support groups. Classes and workshops. Helpline. * Provides information about the service delivery system, legislation and community programs and resources. * Offers education in the community presented by individuals and family members with the lived experience of mental illness/health. * Offers special annual events.

* Provides mental health services to adults, families. * Models recovery, teach skills and offer peer counseling and support to help people experiencing mental health challenges lead meaningful lives in the community. * Promotes recovery; enhance hope and social networking through role modeling and activation; and supplement existing treatment with education, empowerment, and aid in system navigation.

Provides advocacy on behalf of people with mental illnesses. Supports the humane mental health legislation, and organizes grass roots action. Advocates issues such as: ending discrimination, and eradicating the stigma of mental illness. Call for further information or check the website.