Joe Rogers was once homeless, wandering the streets of New York City and fishing through dumpsters for food. Today, he is the “Martin Luther King of mental health,” a powerful and respected advocate who is revolutionizing the mental health care system. This is the story of how Joe used his own experiences with mental illness to help others help themselves. He used his insider’s knowledge of how the system works (and doesn’t) to design selfhelp programs for people who live with mental illness. Joe has made Pennsylvania a model of consumer-run mental health programs and has saved the mental health system millions of dollars. “Helping others is often the best therapy,” he says.