THE PERFECT STORM--Jim Mauro, president of the Ohio board of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, (NAMI) gestures during a news conference concerning the crisis in funding for mental health services, at the Riffe Center, in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002. NAMI and the Coalition for Healthy Communities, a group of 27 advocacy organizations across Ohio, sponsored the event with the theme The Perfect Storm, which describes the various forces that are converging to place the state's public mental health treatment systems in a state of emergency. (Jack Kustron/Photoj.com)