Yumiko Ikuta is a mental health consumer and Director of the Office of Rehabilitation in the Bureau of Mental Health at the NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene. Her office oversees 80+ non-clinical treatment and rehabilitation programs, including supported employment, education support services, clubhouses, psychosocial clubs, peer support, respite, self-help, advocacy and outreach, as well as peer specialist training programs. She served as the former Deputy Director of Howie the Harp Peer Advocacy Center and former Program Manager of the Academy of Peer Services. While working with the NYS Office of Mental Health, she developed the Medicaid billable Home and Community Based Services and its delivery system. She worked for over 15 years in the corporate sector and for the US Agency for International Development at the Dept. of State as an economic development officer in several developing countries.