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Cluster Community Services

Search for Change

Phelps Memorial Hospital

We'd like to thank all those who participated in our walk Saturday May 18.

We are still accepting donations.

namiwalks@namiwestchester.org or 914-592-5458

Check out NAMI Westchesters NAMI Walks website at:

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MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

NAMI Westchester is excited to launch its first Mental Health Awareness Ribbon Campaign during the month of May 2013. White ribbons with our NAMI blue and gold logo will hang from the trees and lamp posts of 27 and counting cities, villages, and towns in Westchester and along Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich CT. Together with our walk, NAMI Westchester is joining a nation wide anti-stigma initiative.

We appreciate the robust endorsements from the City Managers, Mayors, Town Supervisors and Boards of Trustees of the following municipalities: Ardsley, Armonk, Bedford Hills, Bronxville, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Greenwich CT, Harrison, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Katonah, Mount Kisco, New Rochelle, North White Plains, Ossining, Peekskill, Port Chester, Purchase, Rye, Rye Brook, Scarsdale, Tarrytown, Town of Mamaroneck, West Harrison, White Plains, Yonkers, Yorktown and the list keeps growing. We are grateful to Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health and The Volunteer Center of the United Way. Please check back frequently to see the latest municipalities to join our ribbon campaign.

Look up in May: the trees or lamp posts in your town may be aglow in white, spreading the word that there is hope for recovery from mental illness when we combat the stigma that prevents people from getting treatment.

Bedford Joins Ribbon Campaign for Mental Health

Ossining joins 26 other Westchester communities in the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Ribbon Campaign.

See Photos Here 

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NAMI WESTCHESTER HONORED!

Search for Change is honoring NAMI Westchester & NAMI Putnam at their Annual Dinner Dance, Sea Beyond, on Thursday, May 2 from 6:30 to 10:30 pm at Sinap's Ceola Manor, Jefferson Valley, NY. For more information click on this link: http://www.searchforchange.org/sfc-2013-annual-dinner-dance-fundraiser.html 

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  Speaker Series

June 12, 2013

Program: IOOV

Speaker: NAMI Westchester IOOV Presenters 

Please see calendar for more information.

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WHAT TO DO IN A CRISIS

If someone is in immediate danger to themselves or others, please call 911. For all other crisis call The Crisis Prevention and Response Team at 914-925-5959.           

www.stvincentswestchester.org/crisispreventionandresponseteam.html

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NAMI Westchester, Inc. is an Affiliate Chapter of NAMI of NY State 
and of the national organization, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).