Jump To: Episode Video Featured Guest Share About the Host In this episode, NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., is joined by NAMI Connecticut’s Public Policy & Affiliate Relations Manager, Thomas Burr. Thomas shares his family’s story of navigating his son’s mental health condition, along with how the challenges accompanying the condition impacted their family. […]
Arlington, VA ��� Today, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) applauds the new steps to ensure calls to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline are immediately connected to local resources. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that two major telecommunications carriers, Verizon and T-Mobile, will start routing cellular phone calls […]
The United States is going through a youth mental health crisis, with high rates of suicidal ideation, hopelessness and depression. In 2023, more than 1 in 5 high school students seriously considered attempting suicide and 1 in 10 attempted suicide ��� rates that are even higher for at risk communities, like LGBTQ+ youth. When mental […]
Jump To: Episode Video Featured Guest Share About the Host In this episode for Suicide Prevention Month, author and NAMI Ambassador April Simpkins talks with NAMI’s CEO Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., about how she has moved forward after the loss of her daughter, Cheslie Kryst, to suicide. Tune in to hear from April about how […]
“We want people to get well and stay well. Mental health care should not be a luxury good, and the new Biden administration’s rules on mental health parity will help address this issue.” ��� NAMI’s Chief Advocacy Officer, Hannah Wesolowski, during her appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss the new rule expanding access and […]
NAMI-led statement from leading national groups representing people with mental health and substance use disorders and the clinicians who care for them, applauding the newly released final rule to strengthen enforcement of the federal parity law that would improve access to mental health and substance use care.
Leading national groups representing people with mental health and substance use disorders and the clinicians who care for them applaud the newly released final rule to strengthen enforcement of the federal parity law that would improve access to mental health and substance use care. Together, the 17 undersigned organizations issue the following statement: ���Our organizations […]
Arlington, VA ��� Today, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) celebrates a major step in our decades-long advocacy to achieve true mental health parity. The Biden-Harris Administration finalized new rules around strengthening mental health parity protections, increasing accountability and enforcement mechanisms. The rules were announced today in Milwaukee, Wisc. at an event featuring leading […]
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