Nonprofit

Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc.

Mental Health Advocacy Services’ (MHAS) mission is to protect and advance the legal rights of low-income adults and children with mental health disabilities and empower them to assert those rights in order to maximize their autonomy, achieve equity, and secure the resources they need to thrive.

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2 Submitted Ideas

  • LEARN ·2025 Grants Challenge

    Protecting Students from Psychiatric Abuse

    MHAS will launch legal advocacy to address the harmful practice of schools placing students, especially foster youth, on involuntary psychiatric holds without parental consent, providing direct legal services to affected families while building data and partnerships to create systemic change.

  • CONNECT ·2024 Grants Challenge

    ACCESS: Enhancing Mental Healthcare Connections

    Annually, Mental Health Advocacy Services (MHAS) helps thousands of low-income Angelenos with mental health disabilities who aren’t accessing mental health care. They need MHAS’ help to address legal issues that impact their wellbeing (e.g., discrimination, consumer debt/fraud, barriers to securing benefits, and appropriate accommodations as students). They also often need connections to/facilitation of mental and behavioral health services, and that’s what our ACCESS project provides.

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