Dana was a New York state lawmaker and an industrialist interested in health and education. This is the premier brain bank in the world and is in McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital at Harvard. Constance E. Lieber, president, Anne Brown, director. Raises and distributes money for scientific research into the causes, cures and treatments of these mental illnesses. Formed in 1986 by a coalition of other mental health organizations.
Funding comes from families, organizations, foundations and corporations.
Judith Cook, executive director, ext. A federally funded center that conducts studies involving people with severe mental illnesses. Focuses on developing family relationships, returning to work or school, living independently, helping mothers with mental illness, examining youth after special education. Also helps patients with HIV and AIDS mental health problems and works in such areas as self-help and peer support, homelessness and mental illness, managed care and mental health services, and treatment of minorities who need mental health services. A research and consulting firm that tracks trends in behavioral health and human services areas.