Harvey Rosenthal has over twenty years of experience working in a wide variety of community mental health service settings, including inpatient and outpatient treatment, case management, residential, forensic, emergency and rehabilitation settings. For twelve years, he served as Director of Albany's Potpourri Club. He is a former President of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS) and, since 1993, has been its first Executive Director.

Harvey has acted as chair of the state's Mental Health Action Network and has helped lead numerous successful advocacy coalitions that have led to the passage of Medicaid Buy-In legislation, the MTA Half-Fare Fairness Act, the Community Reinvestment Act and several renewals, as well as state approval of numerous funding enhancements to community mental health services.

Harvey currently serves on the board of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law and has been a board member of the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (formerly IAPSRS), the NYS Independent Living Council and the National Association of Rights Protection Advocacy.

He currently serves on the state's Most Integrated Settings Coordinating Council and the Governor's Adult Care Facilities Work Group. Harvey regularly speaks throughout New York State and across the country promoting the recovery, rehabilitation and rights of people with psychiatric disabilities. Harvey's interest in promoting mental health recovery is also personal, dating back to his own hospitalization at age 19.

New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services