How FPS advocates for quality and accessible mental health care in Florida
What we do
We help FPS members meet with their local state legislators either in Tallahassee or at their local district offices, and help those members as they prepare for their meeting, with tips and effective talking points.
Our lobbying team attends legislative committee meetings and meets with legislators and other policymakers to ensure that they have the facts and a clear understanding of how legislative decisions will affect patients, healthcare providers, and others.
We track and monitor legislation that affects the practice of psychiatry and mental health care in Florida. We communicate timely and accurate information to FPS members in a weekly legislative update during Florida’s legislative session.
We maintain a political committee (FPS PAC) that ensures Senators and Representatives elected throughout Florida understand the psychiatry profession and how legislation affects FPS members and psychiatric patients. We supportthose state legislative candidates who, in turn, support the views of our profession, and the practice of medicine. Our goal is to ensure that statewide elected officials, Senators and Representatives will fairly and equitably represent FPS’s best interests at the state Capital.
