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NAMI Media Efforts in Connection With White House Conference on Mental Health

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-media-efforts-in-connection-with-white-house-conference-on-mental-health/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">The June 7, 1999 White House Conference on Mental Health has generated considerable media coverage of issues related to mental illness.</span></p>

NAMI Calls On President Clinton To Require Mental Health Insurance Parity From Federal Contractors

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-calls-on-president-clinton-to-require-mental-health-insurance-parity-from-federal-contractors/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has called on President Clinton to take executive action to require private contractors doing business with the federal government to guarantee equal coverage of mental illnesses in health insurance plans they provide their own employees.</span></p>

White House to Require Full Mental Illness Insurance Parity for Federal Employees

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/white-house-to-require-full-mental-illness-insurance-parity-for-federal-employees/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Millions of Americans are cheering today at the news that the White House plans to require health insurance coverage for severe mental illnesses comparable to that for physical ailments for federal employees and their families.</span></p>

&#8220;Dawson&#8217;s Creek&#8221; Links With NAMI To Educate Youth on Mental Illness

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/dawsons-creek-links-with-nami-to-educate-youth-on-mental-illness/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Dawson&#39;s Desktop, the interactive Internet version of Warner Brothers&#39; popular television drama &quot;Dawson&#39;s Creek&quot; has linked with the Web site of the National Alliance for the Mentally (NAMI)-the nation&#39;s largest grassroots organization dedicated to helping people with severe mental illness-to educate teenagers and young adults about biologically-based brain disorders.</span></p>

NAMI Recognizes Outstanding Psychiatrists

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-recognizes-outstanding-psychiatrists-2/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) today presented its 1999 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award to 39 psychiatrists from around the nation and Canada during the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association here.</span></p>

Thank You Governor Gilmore!

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/thank-you-governor-gilmore/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) today praised Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore III for his decision to grant clemency to convicted murderer Calvin Swann, originally scheduled to die Wednesday night, converting his sentence from death to life without parole.</span></p>

Tipper Gore &#038; Depression: It Can Happen to Anyone Treatment Works-But Only if You Get it

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/tipper-gore-depression-it-can-happen-to-anyone-treatment-works-but-only-if-you-get-it/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">NAMI applauds Tipper Gore for her forthright disclosure of her personal struggle with major depression. We have long known that she is a woman of extraordinary insight, courage and compassion, and her decision to talk about her 1991 experience adds to our high esteem for her.</span></p>

NAMI Publishes First-Ever Consumer Survey On Scientific Research

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/nami-publishes-first-ever-consumer-survey-on-scientific-research/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">In its quarterly scientific publication,&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">The Decade of the Brain</span><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has published the results of the first survey ever taken of consumers with severe mental illnesses (SMIs) about their views of scientific research.</span></p>

Supreme Court Nears &#8220;Defining Moment&#8221;

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/supreme-court-nears-defining-moment/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Olmstead v. L.C. and E.W. (No.98-536), in which the State of Georgia is appealing an 11th Circuit federal court of appeals decision that held the institutionalization of two women with mental illness and mental retardation to be discriminatory under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).</span></p>

Montana Governor Signs Parity Law

https://www.nami.org/press-releases/montana-governor-signs-parity-law/

<p><span style="line-height: 20.7999992370605px;">The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) today thanked Montana Governor Marc Racicot for signing into law a bill to end discrimination in health insurance benefits for persons suffering from severe mental illnesses.</span></p>

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