William Emmet , Director
As Director of the Campaign for Mental
Health Reform, William Emmet is responsible for coordinating the
efforts of sixteen national organizations to make effective mental health
services a national priority. Formed to seize opportunities resulting
from the 2003 report of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental
Health, the Campaign is the mental health advocacy community’s united voice on
federal policy issues.
From 2000 through 2006, Mr. Emmet served
as Project Director for policy analysis and technical assistance at the
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD).
Under Mr. Emmet’s direction, NASMHPD joined with partners from the mental
health advocacy community to provide technical assistance in policy formulation
and implementation to multiple mental health stakeholders at the state
level. He coordinated the mental health community’s contributions to the
Council of State Governments’ Criminal
Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project and contributed to the
report of CSG’s Re-Entry Policy Council.
Before joining NASMHPD, Mr. Emmet worked at the state and national levels of
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). For eight years, he was Executive
Director of NAMI's state organization in Rhode Island. He served as a member of
NAMI's national Board of Directors and, from 1998 to 2000, was Chief Operating
Officer/ Deputy Executive Director of NAMI’s national office, where he oversaw
NAMI’s organizational and programmatic linkages with its state organizations
and grassroots.
Mr. Emmet became active in mental illness advocacy when his brother was
diagnosed with schizophrenia in the early 1980s. He and his wife, Patricia, are
the parents of two adult children.
Contact: bill.emmet@mhreform.org
