Candidate Statement - Lew Mills, PhD
for Chapter Coordinator

As coordinator of CHADD of San Francisco in 1998, and then for Northern California since 1999, Lew's vision has always been to make CHADD available to as many people as possible, with as little volunteer struggle and expenditure of membership money as possible.

Leading the consolidation of chapters into our new "super-chapter" was the beginning of finding ways to cooperate amongst the many people who want to contribute to CHADD's mission.

Lew successfully:

• created and launched this website, including our consolidated schedule
• created and edits, as well as frequently contributes to, the electronic "Center of Attention" newsletter
• initiated the use of listservs and "voice over IP" telephone technology for chapter communications
• grew CHADD of Northern California to nearly 20 active support groups
• has spoken at the National Conference's Leadership Training on chapter management
• was voted "National Volunteer of the Year" in October, 2002
• spoke about the significance of ADHD to the Joint Informational Hearing of the California Senate Committees on Health and Human Services, Business and Professions and the Senate Select Committee on Developmental Disabilities in February of 2002.
• helped form the joint collaborative which connects CHADD with the local organizations of the LDA, IDA, local Parent Training and Information Centers and Schwab Learning
• is frequently quoted in the national press as a tireless advocate, in his profession and publicly, for a better understanding of ADHD.

Professionally, Lew is a Marriage and Family Therapist working in San Francisco, specializing in Adults with ADHD. He has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant University where he completed his doctorate in 1997 with research focused on understanding groups and strategies for changing the cultures of organizations.

He received his BA from Williams College in 1978 and his MA in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University - San Francisco in 1984. He lives in the Bernal Heights area of San Francisco, and has two school-aged children with ADHD. He was himself diagnosed as an adult and has since had a particular passion for serving other adults with ADHD.

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