North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that develops and supports freely-given relationships for people who will benefit from guidance, companionship, and/or advocacy. In each relationship, one partner (the protégé) is a local citizen with a mental disability and/or mental health disorder. The other partner (the advocate) is another local citizen whose interests, identity, and skills match the interests, identity, and needs of their disabled friend.North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy (NQCA) is a small, community-based non-profit governed by a voluntary, local board of directors. Throughout its history, NQCA has stayed focused on its mission to preserve, protect and defend the well-being of people with a mental disorder or disability resulting from brain damage, age (e.g., dementia), mental illness and/or developmental disability. This is accomplished by fostering freely-given relationships between a vulnerable individual with a mental condition (protégé) and an ordinary citizen (advocate). In each relationship, the advocate has interests and skills which match the interests, needs and desires of the protégé. The relationships are designed to be natural, long-lasting, helpful friendships, based on mutual respect. NQCA is specialized to effectively fulfill its one and only mission - fostering and supporting voluntary, helpful, advocacy relationships for local people with mental disabilities and disorders.