“Improving our Nation’s Mental Health Service Systems”

We are delighted to announce that, as part of the National Legislative Seminar on Monday March 11, 2024, and in keeping with our focus on mental health needs of our members and their students, that Dr. Anita Everett, M.D. Director of the Center for Mental Health Services will be a special guest speaker.  She will speak to us from 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. that day. Her topic will be “Improving our Nation’s Mental Health Service Systems.”

This is a topic of serious concern for all of us.

Dr. Anita Everett is the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency, which is an agency under the authority of the

Federal Health and Human Services Agency.

In this role she provides executive leadership for federal efforts to improve the nation’s mental health service systems. Before joining the staff of SAMHSA, she worked at The Johns Hopkins Bayview Community and General Psychiatry Center in Maryland, where she directed 22 community psychology programs that provided a range of services to individuals from preschool age to older adults, including recovery support services for persons with serious mental illnesses.  She also served as a member of the faculty at the Bloomberg School of Health and John Hopkins University. From 1999 to 2003, she was the Inspector General to the Office of the Governor in the Department of Mental Health in Virginia. She also has experience working on international projects in Iraq and Afghanistan on the implementation of mental health services in these countries.

Her insight will be very beneficial for all of us.

National Legislative Seminar - March 10-13, 2024

Register here.