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NAMI Video on African American Leaders' Mental Health Recovery and Support Perspectives
NAMI proudly presents a short video offering moving testimony from NAMI leaders on their own experiences of mental health recovery and support with hope for all families and individuals living with mental illness to know how to find support through NAMI.
Mental health conditions affect many of us • Too often, we face these conditions in silence • You are not alone. There is help • Recovery is possible • Find hope
What is it like to live with mental illness? What is recovery? What can an individual or their family do to find help?
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Related Materials
- Biographies of featured NAMI leaders
- NAMI resources on African American mental health issues
- Sharing Hope: Understanding Mental Health, the NAMI program for building partnership with African American faith communities to offer basic education and support.
- Anita Fisher comments on her experience as a featured NAMI leader in the short video, sharing more about the experiences that led her to want to reach out to others by sharing her own story. (recording of 2-28-12 webinar presentation)
- Lynne Saunders shares her enthusiasm from her perspective as Director of NAMI Family-to-Family and NAMI Basics of the NAMI Education and Peer Support Center, for use of this video in accompaniment to a wide array of NAMI programs and efforts to meaningfully reach and include African American communities. (wmv file recording of 2-28-12 webinar presentation)