Darcy Gruttadaro, J.D.

Darcy Gruttadaro, JD is the director of the Child & Adolescent Action Center at NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness.  Under Ms. Gruttadaro’s direction, the Center focuses on building effective partnerships and driving the debate in reforming the children’s mental health system, advancing evidence-based and family-driven practices, and advocating for increased research on early-onset mental illnesses.  Ms. Gruttadaro is also the creator and editor of NAMI Beginnings, a NAMI publication dedicated to providing information to the advocacy community across the country on issues impacting children and adolescents living with mental illnesses and their families.

Ms. Gruttadaro currently serves as a member and advisor to numerous children's health care task forces and agencies including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Mental Health Task Force and the Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters Study (TASA) at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Before joining NAMI, Ms. Gruttadaro worked as an independent legal advisor and policy analyst for the American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association (AMBHA) and other healthcare and advocacy organizations and practiced law with the law firm of Harris, Beach & Wilcox where she concentrated her law practice on health care and psychiatric care related issues.  She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kenneth R. Fisher in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of New York. 

Ms. Gruttadaro earned her Juris Doctor degree from Western New England College School of Law and her Bachelor of Science degree from Clarkson University.

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