AOCMHP

In response to President John F. Kennedy's signing of the Community Mental Health Act in 1963, a group of five county mental health directors from Eugene, Bend, Oregon City, McMinnville and Medford, formed a 501(c) 3 in 1966 to create and support comprehensive community mental health centers across Oregon. The purpose was to address needs of individuals who had been ‘warehoused‘ in institutions and connect them back with their communities... In 1980, the group changed its name to the Association of Community Mental Health Providers, representing both Community Mental Health Programs and Community Developmental Disabilities Programs. AOCMHP began its formal relationship with the Association of Oregon Counties in 1984. In 1993, the Board changed its tax exempt status to a 501(c) 6 trade association and became the Association of Community Mental Health Programs (AOCMHP). All 36 counties have been represented in AOCMHP for over four decades now, either through county departmental CMHPs or..

Also known as: Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs

Primary location: Salem United States