Mental Health Association of RI

500 Prospect Street
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Established 1916
Phone: 401-726-2285
Website: www.mhari.org
Email: vweisman@mhari.org

The Mental Health Association of RI (MHA of RI) was founded in 1916, as the Rhode Island Association of Mental Hygiene, to help break the chains of mental illness, and promote awareness of how fundamental mental health is to overall health and well-being, through the promotion of mental health, the prevention mental illness and working to improve the system of care for mental health through advocacy, education, services and the dissemination of research.

Fundraising & Administrative Percentage 12%

The Mental Health Association of RI (MHA of RI) is committed to parity and integration between mental health care and substance abuse treatment with general medical care.

MHA of RI supports an adequate organized system of behavioral health care which including early detection and treatment, advocates for recovery-based systems of evidence-based health care, and accessibility to treatments and medications based on effectiveness.
MHA of RI is a the sponsor of ACCESS-RI, a founding member of the National Mental Health Association (now known as Mental Health America) and the Rhode Island statewide outreach partner of the National Institute of Mental Health