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Essex County Mental Health Advocate Discusses Failures of the System
Robert Davison of the Mental Health Association of Essex County to be interviewed on WHYY public radio.
A leading advocate for the mentally ill from Essex County will be interviewed Monday on WHYY-FM, a public radio station serving Greater Philadelphia.
Robert Davison, director of the Montclair-based Mental Health Association of Essex County, will be part of a segment of Voices in the Family called "Society’s Most Forgotten", which airs lives at noon on Nov. 4.
The show will focus on the thousands of mentally ill people living in "quasi-institutions" which provide shelter and meals, but often little in the way of care. New Jersey, according to WHYY, is home to more than a thousand such places.
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Hear Davison discuss how he feels the system is failing to serve the Garden State's seriously mentally ill population.
Mary Lynne Reynolds, director of the Mental Health Association in Southwestern New Jersey, will also be interviewed for the show.
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