Harvey Rosenthal serves as the executive director of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS), a peer-provider partnership that has been a state and national change agent for the past 3 decades.
Harvey has over 40 years of experience working to promote public mental health policies and practices that advance the recovery, rehabilitation, rights, and full community inclusion of individuals with psychiatric disabilities and/or diagnoses.
His advocacy has helped to transform state and national mental health systems, increase access to community-based housing, employment and peer support services, and advance numerous recovery and criminal justice related mental health reforms.
Harvey has helped create several nationally acclaimed and replicated self-help, employment, and transformational training innovations. He has also worked to fight stigma, discrimination, and human rights violations and to expand informed choice protections and cultural competence.
Harvey’s work has been frequently recognized by numerous New York State and national groups, including the highest honors from Mental Health America, ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership, the U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, and the National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery.
His interest in his work is personal, beginning with a psychiatric hospitalization at age 19.