2024 Annual Celebration
The Annual Celebration is Mental Health Advocacy Services’ largest event of the year bringing together attorneys, mental health professionals, advocates, supporters, and community members to honor those fighting to protect and advance the rights of people with mental health disabilities.
This year’s Annual Celebration will be held as an in-person event in West Los Angeles.
The New Center for Psychoanalysis
2014 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Sunday, October 20
3PM | Registration & Cocktail Hour
4PM | Awards Ceremony
2024 HONOREES
This year, Mental Health Advocacy Services is thrilled to honor two distinguished advocates for their outstanding contributions to the field of mental health.
SAL ROSSELLI
JIM PREIS MEMORIAL AWARD
Sal Rosselli has been active in the labor movement since the late 1970s as a union member, an organizer, and an elected leader. Rosselli and his team increased California’s SEIU Local 250 from 25,000 members to more than 150,000 members. During the height of the AIDS crisis, Local 250 created the first literature educating workers about the virus and became a national leader in defining the mission of healthcare workers to ensure that everyone receives compassionate care.
Under Rosselli's leadership, the union also played a pivotal role in passing Healthy San Francisco, a program that provides affordable health care for all city residents.
In addition to winning industry-standard contracts for its members, NUHW is a leader in the struggle to improve access to mental health care. Its members have waged a campaign including multiple strikes to force Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprofit HMO, to meet its legal and ethical obligations under the state and federal mental health parity laws.
PAUL GILMARTIN
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE OF THE YEAR AWARD
Since 2011, Paul has been producing and hosting The Mental Illness Happy Hour, a weekly audio podcast consisting of interviews with artists, friends, listeners, and the occasional mental health professional about all the battles in our heads. The show is geared towards anyone interested in or affected by depression, addiction and other mental challenges which are so prevalent in the creative arts.
Paul created the podcast and the show and its website to give people a place to connect, smile and feel the return of hope. Paul also hopes that his platform helps to dispel the myth about mental illness that folks are alone and there is no help.
From 1995 to 2011 Paul Gilmartin co-hosted TBS’ Dinner and a Movie and in 2004 performed his half-hour stand-up special Comedy Central Presents: Paul Gilmartin.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES, TICKETS, AND TRIBUTES
Low-income people with mental health disabilities are much more likely to succeed in fighting housing discrimination, accessing public benefits, and connecting to other community resources when they have a legal advocate by their side. Your support helps Mental Health Advocacy Services ensure that our clients have the dignity, respect, and quality of life that they deserve.
All sponsors and their guests are invited to join us in-person at the event. MHAS does not limit the number of guests a sponsor can bring. If you are unable to attend the event, your ticket will be extended as a complimentary ticket to one of our community partners.
Our Sponsorship Packet includes a complete list of benefits, including tickets and tributes. To confirm your contribution, fill out page 6 of our Sponsorship Packet or visit our online event page.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
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Alston & Bird LLP ❖ Anonymous
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP ❖ Calini
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
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Annie Preis ❖ Areta Crowell ❖ David Bower & Francis Ryu ❖ Barbara Reeves
John Preis & Allison Cheffer ❖ Law Office of Jeanette Laba
Psych-Appeal ❖ Supervisor Hilda Solis ❖ Sycamores ❖ Vanaman German LLP