National Network for Mental Health
Board of Directors
2011-2012

Executive Committee
Jean Beckett (Ontario) President/Treasurer Bio	April Maksymchuk (Ontario Member at Large) Vice President Bio	Ellen Cohen (Ontario Member at Large)  Treasurer Bio
Board Members
Brian Eaton (BC & the Territories) Bio pending	Preetha Stephen (Ontario) Bio
The NNMH Board of Directors is supported by the following staff and volunteer members: Joan Edwards Karmazyn, National Executive Director (ed@nnmh.ca)

Bio for Jean Beckett

Jean Beckett has been serving on Boards ever since the early 1990’s. She began working with a group of persons with disabilities to found RISE Resource Centre for Independent Living and became their first Chair for seven years. She currently works for RISE part-time delivering nutrition, wellness and poverty reduction programs. Within a couple of years on that first board, she began serving on other boards, committees, and task forces; primarily within the mental health sector.

She currently is serving her last year as President of Muskoka Parry Sound Community Mental Health Service and also sits on the Board of the Northeast Mental Health Centre. She is a Consumer/Survivor Representative on the Ontario Consumer and Family Council of CMHA Ontario and is Co-Chair of Lake Country Community Legal Clinic. She recently joined the board of the Northeast Ontario Network of Consumer Survivor Initiatives (NEON) and is in her second of two three-year terms on the Trillium Foundation Grant Review Team in her region.

Despite all this she will tell you her proudest accomplishments are her thirty-eight year marriage, two children and seven grandchildren. Her favorite times are spent with them and her dog enjoying nature, camping, boating, fishing, and family breakfasts.

Bio for Preetha Stephen

Preetha currently works for the Conseil scolaire de district catholic centre sud as a Secretaire des resources infomatiques . She has worked for RyeACCESS, a community service group at Ryerson that tends to the non-academic needs of students with disabilities and on a part-time basis as a Bilingual Administrative Assistant with the Schizophrenia Society of Canada. She is the recipient of the 2007 Flag of Hope Award for raising awareness and reducing stigma around schizophrenia. In 2006, her essay,"A Battle Well Fought: Mental Illness Stigma and the Workplace" won the Scotiabank essay contest. She is a board member for the Nickel-a-Drink Foundation.