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One year ago today, President Barack Obama signed the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act into law. It was named in honor of Clay Hunt, a Marine veteran who died by suicide in March 2011 at the age of 28. Clay Hunt joined the Marine Corps in 2005 and de...
In 2019, more than 45% of young people between the ages of 12-17 in California experienced “moderate to severe” psychological distress, which has proven to interfere with academic and social functioning. In 2020, one in six high school students in the state reported t...
Watch NAMI's SAMHSA-sponsored webinar on financing the start-up and operation of First Episode Psychosis (FEP) programs.
A Webinar Series Focused on Suicide Prevention Efforts, Sharing Lived Experience and Inspiring Future Activism NAMI Ask the Expert — Suicide Prevention Session 2: Making Meaning of Loss — Stories from Lived Experience Thursday, September 15, 2022, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. E...
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CIT for Youth programs teach law enforcement officers to connect young people who need help to effective services and supports in their community by training officers about adolescent brain development and how mental health symptoms present in youth.
Lauren B. Simonds, MSW, is a member of the NAMI Board of Directors since 2021, elected to fill the seat from the NAMI Executive Directors Council, and has been the Executive Director of NAMI Washington since 2014.
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2015 Advocate, click here to see other articles that appeared in that issue. To receive the print edition of the Advocate, become a member today. On Oct. 8, NAMI will honor Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, with its annual Scie...
Funeral services will be held Friday, June 14th at 2:00 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church, 3240 "O" Street in Georgetown in Washington, D.C. for Richard Jed Wyatt, former chief of NIMH's Neuropsychiatry Branch and a long-time friend of NAMI, who died June 7th, after a long...
Don’t miss Integrating Peers in Crisis Response Services on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, 1:30 p.m. ET, and Providing Team-Based Services to Youth in Crisis on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, 1:30 p.m. ET.
Someone once asked me, “Doesn’t everyone who has a mental illness want to die at some point?” With a puzzled look on my face, I answered, “Life and the brain don’t work that way.” Mental illnesses, such as depression , bipolar disorder and substance use disorders ar...
Suicide rates in older persons are on the rise and, yet, symptoms of depression are rarely recognized and treated in this population, reports the current issue of the Decade of the Brain, a quarterly science-based publication of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NA...
Jump To: Episode <!-- Video --> Featured Guests <!-- Share --><!-- Transcript --> About the Guest Host In this episode of NAMI’s podcast, guest host Alex Ang (member of NAMI NextGen), fills in for NAMI CEO Daniel H. Gillison Jr. to speak with Jayvein ...
Let’s applaud WAMU-FM, the National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate in Washington, D.C. for a recent five-part series on children, mental health and schools. Each episode (available in both audio and text) can be found here: Feeling 'Invisible' — How Mental Illness Often Goe...