Gayle Frankel received a degree in Mental Health from Hahnemann University, where she was elected to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. She interned at Philadelphia Psychiatric Center (now Belmont), and worked in the in-patient department of Horsham Clinic’s Substance Abuse unit.
Ms. Frankel, a founder of the Philadelphia Affiliate G.O.A.L. Support and Maintenance groups served on its Board as President since its inception. She has been a contributor to the Journal of the California Alliance for the Mentally Ill, co-authoring an article on the therapeutic aspects of camping, and has presented workshops at the National OC Foundations Conferences in Minnesota, Boston, Orlando, St.Louis, Washington, DC, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia. Ms. Frankel is presently working with an Orthodox woman’s support group in Lakewood, New Jersey.