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MHA and Project Return Peer Support Network remember Bill Compton

With deep sadness, MHA announces the passing of William H. Compton Jr., visionary leader of Project Return Peer Support Network. We invite you to read our In Memoriam, which includes options for supporting the
William H. Compton Jr. Memorial Fund.

With cornerstones of service, information, advocacy and training, the National Mental Health Association of Greater Los Angeles (MHA) works to ensure that people with mental illness reach their rightful place as participating, productive members of our community.

MHA unites the public and professionals, people with mental illness and their parents to advance acceptance and achievement for people with mental illness. We serve adults, including those who have been homeless, and young adults, concentrating on those who are leaving foster care. We help individuals across our county with an information and assistance team, self-help network and toll-free peer support telephone line. Our service sites are located in Los Angeles, Long Beach and the Antelope Valley.

Founded in 1924, MHA is one of the county’s oldest nonprofit mental health organizations and an affiliate of the National Mental Health Association, and the Mental Health Association in California.

Join the National Mental Health Association of Greater Los Angeles today! Your donation helps young adults and adults with mental illness live with quality and equality.

"Proposition 63 Begins"

Click here for a collection of articles by Mark Ragins, M.D., on making the transformation to a recovery-focused mental health system.


		Serve people with mental illness in recovery, peer support and housing models that help them move from isolated, dependent lives to involved, independent lives.

At this year’s “Golden Ducky Awards,” our MHA Village recognized more than 150 people we serve for their work, living, education, sobriety and volunteer achievements. (more)

Our Antelope Valley Services has received a grant from the Boeing Company to help homeless individuals with mental illness as they get a job, go to school or move into an apartment. (more)


		Inform to improve access to care, awareness of mental illness as treatable and acceptance of people with this illness.

Need help right away?
Contact our Information and Assistance team by phone or e-mail.

Necesita ayuda ahora?
Communicate con nuestro Equipo de Informacion y Asistencia por telefono o carta electronica.

Looking for mental health peer support?
Call the Project Return: The Next Step Friendship Line run by and for people with mental illness.


		Advocate with others who care about our cause to abolish discrimination in funding, health care, jobs and housing.

What's new with mental health on the state and national level? Click here to find out what's going on and how you can help. (more).


		Train mental health professionals, agencies and systems who want to learn about and use our integrated services and self-help models and our “quality of life” outcomes system.

Project Return: The Next Step, the self-help network we sponsor, is conducting a series of trainings for people with mental illness who are interested in becoming peer support workers in the mental health field. (more).

National Mental Health Association of Greater Los Angeles Administration Offices
100 W.Broadway, Suite 5010 Long Beach, CA 90802-2310
888-242-2522, ext. 226 development@mhala.org