Mental health advocates from the Catholic Charities of the Southern Tier and the Alliance for Rights and Recovery are getting ready to go to Albany to make their voices heard on March 4th for Legislative Day 2025.

The conference is held annually by the Association for Community Living, with local advocates starting their preparations today at the Broome County Public Library today with a public forum.

Brandan Campbell, Board Member for the Southern Tier Regional Coordinator and the Alliance for Rights and Recovery, hopes the event will serve as a way for local advocates to get their voice heard.

"Programs get cut back, initiatives get lost, funding dries up and then we are forgotten again. So the importance of going to Albany is to remind them, we're still here, we're still voters," Campbell said.

They're hoping to take around 500 participants to Albany.

If you'd like to participate, you can contact your Southern Tier Regional Representative or the Catholic Charities of Broome County for information on how to get on one of the buses headed to the Capital in March.