Benefits of Membership

•  Advocacy at local, state and national levels calls attention to needed treatment, housing, employment training and health care.

• Referrals provide families with needed information on treatment options and community services.

• Books, videos and tapes are available as resources through NAMI.

• Informative newsletters, "Stateline" and "Advocate" keep members up-to-date on a variety of issues at the state and national levels.

• Affiliate support groups enable families to share concerns and to learn about mental illnesses.

• Opportunities to work directly as volunteers on programs designed to aid persons with mental illness.

• An awareness and advocacy for pertinent legislation at all levels of government.

• Public education to reduce and eliminate discrimination and the stigma associated with mental illness.

• Support of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness.

• Local chapter newsletter packed with more detailed information published 6 times a year (every two months).