Our Background

The Mental Health and Aging Advocacy Project is a program of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (MHASP). The Project has the support of Joseph A. Rogers, executive director of MHASP. Rogers has supported the Project by offering the services of the project's director, Tom Volkert, to the Bazelon Center's efforts at developing a national senior consumer constituency.

The Project came to MHASP in 1998, after operating for several years out of the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health (OMH). Though it still receives funding from OMH, the Project's move to MHASP enables more independent advocacy on issues around seniors and mental health.