Elaine Linn
Title: Senior Consultant
Bio: Elaine is a trusted communications counselor who excels at advocacy strategy. Her leadership has been instrumental in bringing stakeholders together to shape health care policy within California.
In 2002, Elaine brought to life an award-winning PBS documentary "Hope on the Street" that chronicled the lives of homeless Californians with mental illness. National airings of the documentary, under-written by Eli Lilly and Company and produced by KQED (PBS San Francisco), have contributed to improved access to mental health services and treatments as well as reduced the criminalization of individuals with mental illness.
On behalf of the California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies, Elaine oversaw ally media relations that played an integral part in the passage of Proposition 63 – an elite tax to fund needed community-based mental health services throughout California.
In addition to her duties at PCG, Elaine serves on the UC Davis Health System Community Advisory Board and holds a Board post with the Sacramento Association for the Retarded. She volunteers for the Ronald McDonald House San Francisco and the Down Syndrome Information Alliance, which she founded with her husband in Sacramento.
Elaine graduated cum laude from California State University, Sacramento, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
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