New Jersey Mental Health Institute

Changing Minds, Advancing Mental Health for
Hispanics

Project Management Team

·        Angie Armand, Director, State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, Center for Hispanic Policy, Research and Development, Trenton, N.J.

·        Sylvia Axelrod, M.A., C.R.C., Executive Director, NAMI NEW JERSEY, North Brunswick, N.J.

·        Esmeralda Cameron, Public Affairs Producer, WWORTV, UPN9, Secaucus, N.J.

·        Lisa Fedder, L.C.S.W., Executive Director, Family Service Bureau, Newark, N.J.

·        Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute for Health, Health Care and Aging Research, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, N.J.

·        Robert C. Like, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor and Director, Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, N.J.

·    Igda E. Martinez, Research Assistant, Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

·        Theresa Miskimen, M.D., Councilor, New Jersey Psychiatric Association and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, New Brunswick, New Jersey

·        William A. Vega, Ph.D., Director, Behavioral Research and Training Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University Behavioral Health Care, New Brunswick, N.J.

·        Wayne Vivian, President, Coalition for Mental Health Consumer Organizations, Paterson, N.J.

·        Leah Ziskin, M.D., M.S., Associate Dean, Stratford/Camden Campus, UMNDJ-School of Public Health, Stratford, N.J.

·        Debra L. Wentz, Ph.D., Executive Director. New Jersey Mental Health Institute, Inc., Mercerville, N.J.

·   Henry Acosta, M.A., M.S.W., L.S.W., Project Director, Changing Minds, Advancing Mental Health for Hispanics, New Jersey Mental Health Institute, Inc., Mercerville, N.J.