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Background
The Access Campaign for Mental Healthcare works to educate state and local opinion leaders and lawmakers on the importance and cost-effectiveness of mental health care. The Campaign accomplishes these goals through advocacy, education and outreach.
A network of local and state mental health advocacy organizations, the Access Campaign was established in 1995. The Campaign is coordinated by the Mental Health Association in California.
The Goals of the Campaign are to Eliminate the Barriers that keep Californians from accessing the care they need when they need it. The Access Campaign seeks to eliminate barriers to access through:
- Increasing mental health literacy and increasing the understanding of mental illness
- Reducing the barriers to access imposed by both public and private payers
- Reducing discriminatory practices within the education system, the workplace, and communities
- Ensuring access to effective medications and services that reduce the burden of living with mental illness
- Ending the criminalization of individuals with mental illness
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