President Biden’s American Rescue Plan included billions for the training of mental health professionals, and community-based programs. The proposals the Biden administration is enacting might seem like they were inevitable, but none of these changes would be possible without decades of work by those in the activist community.
Author: Phyllis Vine
Phyllis Vine is a historian and author of the forthcoming book Fighting for Recovery: An Activists’ History of Mental Health Reform (Beacon Press).