This article describes the authors experience as an organizational change agent. The need to enhance client access to mental health care was the rallying cry for clinic transformation. The author describes how facility management, staff development, and therapeutic community were used to improve clinic functioning. The article ends with suggestions for how the reader might engage in organizational change.
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