The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) announces the election of its new Board of Directors. Judge Joyce Campbell, J.D., was elected to serve a second term as board president of the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization.
A Fireside Chat With Dr. Marlene Freeman And Dr. Ken Duckworth: Psychiatric Medications And Considerations For Individuals Across Pregnancy, The Postpartum, And Reproductive Years Thursday, March 7, 2024, 4:00pm – 5:30pm ET This will be a live Q&A event with Dr. Marlene Freeman, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the […]
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 4:00pm – 5:30pm ET About half of all people with schizophrenia, bipolar, and related disorders suffer from a symptom that leaves them unable to understand that they have a mental health condition. This is a symptom of these brain disorders, not denial! As such, how we approach and communicate with people […]
Thursday, January 18, 2024, 4:00pm – 5:30pm ET This webinar reviews the topic of violence and mental illness from an evidence-based framework. First, the webinar will highlight different ways that social stigma and cognitive bias fuel exaggerated beliefs about the link between violence and mental illness. Then, empirical research will be presented, demonstrating that the scientific […]
Thursday, December 14, 2023, 4:00pm – 5:30pm ET Pretrial detention is a high-risk time for people with mental illness. Over half of the people in U.S. jails are detained pretrial; they not been convicted of any crime, are awaiting further court proceedings, and are presumed innocent. The suicide rate of pretrial detainees is three times higher […]
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:00pm – 5:30pm ET Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a simple and powerful process for creating the life and wellness you want. The WRAP process supports you in identifying the tools that keep you well and create action plans to put them into practice in your everyday life. WRAP helps you […]
It is important to emphasize the pivotal role that research occupies in shaping the trajectory of mental health treatment.
We are living through a crisis that doesn’t get the same attention as pandemics or wars, but it is very real — and getting much worse. It is a mental health crisis, and it disproportionality impacts youths, the LGBTQ+ community and other marginalized groups.
Today, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) released a new poll, conducted by Ipsos, that finds a bipartisan majority of Americans (86%) agree their elected officials need to do more to improve mental health care in the U.S., with only 7% that believe Congress is currently doing the right amount on this issue.
NAMI/Ipsos Poll – Summer 2023 Tracking Conducted by Ipsos using KnowledgePanel ® A survey of the American general population (ages 18+) Interview dates: June 2 – 11 , 202 3 Margin of error: +/ - 2.3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level for all respondents NOTE: All results show percentages among all respondents, unless […]
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