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The Power of Advocacy: Turning Experience into Impact

The most effective advocacy combines real world data with lived experience to paint a fuller, more compelling picture of the reality of mental illness.

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The Game-Changing Legacy of The Affordable Care Act

We cannot go back to a time when health insurance was unavailable, inaccessible and discriminatory for people with mental health conditions. Instead, we must...

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Using Our Voice to Protect the Mental Health of the LGBTQ+ Community

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Your Story Can Change Hearts, Minds and Policy

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Lessons in Advocacy from a State and Federal Legislative Staffer

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Celebrating NAMI’s Role in Advocating for an Improved Criminal Justice System

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How the Justice System Fails Those with Mental Illness

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How Solitary Confinement Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis

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All People Deserve Quality Care, Including Those Who Are Incarcerated

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Impacting Mental Health Resources with Your Vote

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How My Depression Made Me A Better State Representative

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Everyone Deserves Adequate Mental Health Care

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Opioids and Substance Abuse: What Can We Do?

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Early Psychosis Programs Are Changing Lives—But What if You Can’t Find One?

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Doctors Should Be Able to Access Mental Health Information

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The Double Standard of Mental Illness

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Building Bonds Behind Bars with NAMI Peer-to-Peer

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Can Stigma Prevent Employment?

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Outreach and Engagement for Early Psychosis

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Navigating the Mental Health System with Dual Diagnosis

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Suicide Prevention as a Social Justice Issue

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Work is Recovery

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Disparities Within Minority Mental Health Care

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A Good Soldier: Surviving My Mother’s Life and Death

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Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

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The Stigma in Our Health Care System

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Reasons to Attend NAMI’s Hill Day

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Delivering on the Hope for Recovery

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A Dog Story: Negotiating with the Airlines

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World Health Day Spotlights Depression

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The Art of Recovery: How Medicaid Changed Crystal’s Life

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Medicaid Matters: Lifting a Family from Fear to Hope

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Balanced Partnership Raises the Scale of Mental Health Awareness

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The Reps are Back in Town: Make Your Voice Heard

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Mental Health Reform is a Law

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Tell Us How Your Health Insurance is (or isn’t!) Working for You

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Time is Ticking on Early Psychosis

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Take the First Step for Mental Health Reform: Register to Vote

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A Presidential Candidate Steps Out with a Mental Health Agenda

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The Countdown is On: Time to Pass Mental Health in the Senate

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NAMI Takes a Stand During a White House Mental Health Panel

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A Voice at the Table: NAMI and Community Partnerships

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Monthly Media Watch: Politics, Language and Stigma

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Think Global, Act Local

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More Money for Research and No Major Cuts To Mental Health Programs In Budget Bills

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New Report Shows Challenges Facing People With Serious Mental Illness Living on SSI

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Cruel and Unusual – It’s Time to End an American Tragedy

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Mental Health Parity: Still a Long Way to Go

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How Do We Fix America’s Mental Health Care System?

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