Marin County Chapter of the Network of Mental Health Clients
Seeks to empower clients of the mental health system through self-help groups and networking statewide, to confront discriminating attitudes about mental health clients in the public, the media, the mental health, and within mental health clients themselves, to provide a strong voice of, by and for mental health clients; to be heard on all issues concerning clients and public policies affecting them in the government, the media, and the community. Seeks to promote and instill the rights of clients in and out of treatment situations, with special attention to the right to freedom of choice, to provide every possible reasonable accommodation to enable persons with a psychiatric disability to work; and provide a range of employment opportunities from subsidized pre-vocational training to on the job skills development through to employment comparable to non-disabled individuals in similar positions.