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The Lawmakers Who Cook documents relate to an annual fundraising event sponsored by MHANYS to raise money for advocacy efforts.

The subseries includes material from a mental health advocacy campaign carried out by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law in Washington, DC. The managed care advocacy material relates to the place of mental health in managed care health plans and the organization of local task forces by MHANYS and its affiliates to address managed care issues. Also included are: Supplementary Security Income (SSI) eligibility standards for children with mental health and other disabilities; Special Needs Plans (SNP), which allow access by those with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) to SNPs under managed care; and the Vote Mental Health initiative which was a statewide voter mobilization and registration campaign.