A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude honors graduate of Ohio State University, Barbara Demming Lurie continued her graduate studies in clinical psychology at the University of Wisconsin. She spent the next two decades heading the Patients’ Rights Bureau for LAC-DMH on weekdays and on weekends, penning a restaurant review column for a daily Los […]
Dolores Encinas grew up in Missouri, later moving to Iowa and then to Los Angeles. She became involved with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) when her sons became ill. Ms. Encinas helped organize NAMI East San Gabriel Valley, and she served as President of the group. During this time, she developed educational panels […]
Dr. J. R. Elpers was Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health 1978-84. He received his medical degree from Indiana University and completed his residency in psychiatry at Columbia-Presbyterian in New York. After working as Deputy Director of Mental Health in Orange County, he was appointed Director of the Los Angeles County […]
Wendy Douglas, LCSW, is a social worker at Edelman Mental Health Center in West Los Angeles. Transcript