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Lynn Cooper is the Behavioral Health Policy Specialist at the Pennsylvania Association of Area Agencies on Aging (P4A). Ms. Cooper has over 46 years of experience in public health. She has over 29 years of experience working on regulatory and policy issues for mental health and substance use disorder treatment providers in Pennsylvania, working at the Pennsylvania Association of Community Providers/Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association. She served as the Deputy Director for 10 of those years. 

Ms. Cooper works at P4A and supports the Area Agencies on Aging to help improve access to mental health and substance use disorder services in the Commonwealth for older adults. Ms. Cooper celebrated 35 years in recovery in January of 2025 and has six years of experience helping her mother deal with mental health and substance use disorders in the last six years of her life.