Abstract
This narrative describes a five-year administrative advocacy effort to address the negative consequences of categorical government funding on the development of integrated and comprehensive mental-health and chemical-dependency services for youth and their families. The discussion incorporates rational and irrational aspects of macro-level practice. The author's recounting of the advocacy process—in narrative form as a children's story to a group of legislators and government officials during a gathering celebrating the success of the effort—is chronicled. All of the events in this narrative are true. All locations and identifying information have been changed to accent the universal nature of the encounters described.
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