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Summary of Meeting

Ramada Inn, Rockville, MD
September 26 – 27, 1996
IN ATTENDANCE

• Thomas Bornemann, Ed.D., Deputy Director, Center for Mental Health Services; Acting Director of Office of External Liaison
  
  
• Craig Packer, Government Project Officer, National Mental Health Information Center; Meeting Facilitator
  
  
• Lisa Swanberg, M.S.L.S., Project Director, National Mental Health Information Center
  
  
• Bruce Emery, M.S.W., Director, National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning
  
  
• Laurie Ahern, Director, National Empowerment Center
  
  
• Joan Dodge, Ph.D., Senior Policy Associate, National Technical Assistance Center on Children's Mental Health
  
  
• James Wirnarski, M.S.W., Training and Technical Assistance Consultant, Advocates for Human Potential [Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH)]
  
  
• Bonita Vesey, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, The National GAINS Center
  
  
• Barbara Friesen, Ph.D., Director, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
  
  
• Sigrid Hutcheson, Ph.D., Senior Policy Associate, Center for Evaluation of Child Mental Health Systems
  
  
• Vicki Smith, M.A., Project Director, Advocacy Training and Technical Assistance Center
  
  
• Ellen Kagen, M.S.W., Director of Special Programs, National Resource Network on Child and Family Mental Health
  
  
• James Ciarlo, Ph.D., Director and Research Professor, Frontier Mental Health Services Resource Network
  
  
• Judith Cook, Ph.D., Director, University of Illinois at Chicago National Research Training Center on Psychiatric Disability
  
  
• Steve Leff, Ph.D., Director/Principal Investigator, Center for Evaluation of Adult Mental Health Systems
  
  
• Krista Kutash, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health
  
  
• Kathy Norman, M.Ed., M.S.W., Director of Resource and Information Services, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  
  
• Deirdre Oakley, M.A., Homelessness Prevention Program Coordinator, National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness
  
  
• Joseph Rogers, Executive Director for Programs, National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse

Also speaking:

• Bernard S. Arons, M.D., Director, Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
  
  
• Michael English, J.D., Director, Division of Knowledge Development and Systems Change
  
  
• Jeffrey Buck, Ph.D., Director, Office of Organization and Financing, CMHS
  
  
• Mary Jo Deering, Ph.D., Director of Health Communication and Telehealth Staff, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  
  
• Sylvia Caras, owner of MADNESS, an online discussion place and electronic mailing list for consumers of mental health services
  
  
• Trina Osher, Director of the Family Leadership Initiative for the Federation of Families