This bulletin focuses on family participation in mental health policymaking and highlights state efforts to increase family involvement. Articles include: (1) "Promoting Family Member Involvement in Children's Mental Health Policy Making Bodies," which describes how different states are promoting family member involvement in various statutory and policy schemes; (2) "Partners in Policymaking: Far More than the Object of Policy," which provides quality principles for evaluating programs; (3) "Social Security Administration Reviews Closed Cases for Children with Disabilities"; (4) "Family Advocacy Coordinators: Evolving Roles in Colorado's System of Care"; (5) "Hawaii Federal Court Consent Decree Mandates Consumer and Family Member Participation in Policymaking"; (6) "Child and Adolescent Local Area Networks of Care in Illinois"; (7) "Partners at the Policy Table," which describes efforts in Massachusetts to involve parents in public policy discussions; (8) "Rhode Island's Efforts To Promote Family Member Participation in Policymaking"; (9) "Family Member Involvement in Policymaking in Vermont"; (10) "Family-Professional Relationships: Moving Forward Together: A Summary of the National Peer Technical Assistance Network's 1998 Publication"; (11) "1998 Building on Family Strengths Conference Held in Portland"; and (12) "EAT PYE: Youth Participation in Policymaking". The bulletin closes with a list of publications on family participation and advocacy. (CR)