Rebecca Farley David

Policy advisor at the National Council. Loves citizen advocacy and nerdy health policy research. My opinions are my own.

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

Join our Day of Action to make the promise of 988 a reality and pass the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act! https://t.co/JVwiYLdIXr #988CantWait

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

.@repjoeneguse Please provide $38.5 billion for providers of mental health and addiction treatment and services. We cannot leave behavioral health behind as we fight to recover from COVID-19 #Unite4BH

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

.@senatorbennet Please provide $38.5 billion for providers of mental health and addiction treatment and services. We cannot leave behavioral health behind as we fight to recover from COVID-19 #Unite4BH

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

.@sencorygardner Please provide $38.5 billion for providers of mental health and addiction treatment and services. We cannot leave behavioral health behind as we fight to recover from COVID-19 #Unite4BH

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

@laura3530 @GovHowardDean @NationalCouncil @GaylordOpryland My first ever NatCon! Missing you all this year - hope Nashville is great!

[National Council for Mental Wellbeing @NationalCouncil]

A special thanks to @SenStabenow and @RoyBlunt for sponsoring today’s CCBHC congressional staff briefing! Your dedication to improving Americans’ lives through behavioral health care is truly appreciated. #Unite4BH

[Brent McGinty @thebrentmcginty]

Thanks @NationalCouncil @RoyBlunt @SGFPolice @BurrellCenter for your advocacy around behavioral health access and CCBHCs. They are changing the landscape for behavioral health access in Missouri.

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

Thank you @DorisMatsui for your tireless support of CCBHCs! Proud to be standing by your side with @NationalCouncil as we work to expand the model that's bridging the #addiction treatment gap. https://t.co/1qiWqPzKwx

[Samantha Holcombe @smh687]

“Just because it’s in the brain rather than the heart or the kidney doesn’t mean it’s not a disease that needs to be treated.” @SenStabenow on mental health as a chronic disease #NatCon18 #HillDay18

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

“People are hard to hate close up. Move in.” -@BreneBrown #natcon18

[NAMI Advocacy @NAMIAdvocacy]

“We all want this [CCBHCs] to be a permanent feature in Medicaid.” @BeccaCFarley #NatCon18 #Act4MentalHealth

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

@kcelentano Yes - treatment should empower people to lead full and productive lives!

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

“The mental disease took so much from my brother... but it can’t take his story. Every time I talk about him, he rips a little bit back from the darkness.” @glynnwashington #NatCon18

[Alicia Aebersold @aliciacollin]

“Just because you hear something other people don’t hear or see something other people don’t see, doesn’t mean you don’t deserve respect.” @glynnwashington #NatCon18

[Alicia Aebersold @aliciacollin]

“A mother writes to me, her homeless son has come in finally off the streets, in his pocket a badly worn clipping. He has circled these words, from my oped: There should be no shame in having a mental illness, only shame in not helping someone who does.” @peteearley #NatCon18

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

@PCI_Westlake @AASuicidology And an under-recognized one.

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

Lost productivity is the largest contributor to the economic burden of serious #mentalillness - meaning there's tremendous potential economic & societal benefit from every dollar invested in treatment. -Seth Seabury @SchaefferCenter @BHEconNetwork #NatCon18

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

Every day a new reason to admire and be inspired by @vitkaE. #NatCon18

[Tramaine EL-Amin @TDEHealth]

.@linda_rosenberg on advocacy: "if you don't ask, the answer is always no" #NatCon18 @NationalCouncil

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

We don’t rely on grants to fund treatment for heart disease & cancer - #mentalillness and #addiction should be no different. -@linda_rosenberg #NatCon18

[Rebecca Farley David @BeccaCFarley]

It's important to make the economic case for investing in #behavioralhealth, but it shouldn't be the sole basis of decisionmaking & isn't for other conditions: no one argues that investment in cancer care should depend on economic return on investment. @BHEconNetwork #natcon18