Joint Advocacy
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority (Trust) and statutory advisory boards maintain an advocacy network that communicates with grassroots advocates on issues related to legislation and policy affecting Trust beneficiaries, their families, providers, and administrators who serve Trust beneficiaries.
For more information, contact the Advocacy Coordinator at: advocacy.coordinator@mhtrust.org or 907-465-4765.
Virtual Advocacy Trainings
These free trainings conducted over Zoom offer tools and hands-on practice for advocating on issues you care about. Participants learn how to talk to policymakers and speak at public meetings on decisions that impact people with mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual/developmental disabilities, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, Alzheimer's disease and related dementia, and traumatic brain injuries. The training is for people with lived experience of a disability, family members, service providers, administrators, peers, and others.
Trainings are typically conducted in the fall, and the 2021 trainings are complete. Stay tuned for dates for 2022 trainings.
Download the 2021 Super Advocate advocacy training informational flyer.
2021/2022 Joint Advocacy Priorities
- Sign up for the Action Network
- Learn more about our Action Network
- Advocacy from Home - how you can make a change
- Telling Your Story to a Policymaker (Fillable Form)
- How to Follow the Legislature
- Partner Advisory Boards
- Trust Overview
2020 Educational Materials
- Substance Misuse and Addiction
- Reducing Recidivism through Treatment and Reentry Supports
- Community-Based Services
- Workforce Development
- Supported Employment
- Supportive Housing
- Medicaid Health Coverage
- Suicide Prevention
Joint Advocacy Reports