Advocacy

Click here to review VAMH's 2009 Social Policy Priorities

The Vermont Association for Mental Health has led and been involved in many important legislative initiatives that have emanated in and around the Statehouse.

Initiatives Have Included:

• Promotion of funding support for self-help programs for consumers and parents.
• Acccess to quality community-based services for Vermont citizens.
• Reduction in reliance on the Vermont State Hospital.
• Expanded funding for all major components of public mental health systems.
• Expansion of children's mental health services with dramatic improvement since the mid-1980's.
• Promotion of one of the first mental health managed care regulatory bills in the country, 1994.
• Successful campaign to establish parity between physical & mental health benefits, 1997. National precedent. Please see our published report.

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