- Advocacy at NAMI
- Advocate for Change
- Crisis Intervention
- Policy Platform
- Policy Positions
- Improving Health
- Affordable Care Act Coverage Expansions & Consumer Protections
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
- Coverage of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for Early or First-Episode Psychosis
- Ensuring Access to Veterans’ Mental Health Care
- Involuntary Civil Commitment
- Medicaid Block Grants and Per Capita Caps
- Medicaid Coverage for Maternal Mental Health
- Medicaid Coverage for People Who are Incarcerated
- Medicaid Expansion
- Medicaid: IMD Exclusion
- Medicaid: Work Reporting Requirements
- Medical Professionals: Licensure Application Questions on Mental Health
- Medicare: 190 Day Limit
- Medicare: Medication Access
- Medications: Ensuring Access
- Medications: Marijuana/Cannabis Research
- Medications: Research on Schedule I Drugs
- Medications: Step Therapy
- Medications: Therapeutic Substitution
- Mental Health Days: School Absence Policies
- Mental Health in Schools
- Mental Health Parity
- Mental Health Screening
- Mental Health Treatment While Incarcerated
- Physical & Mental Health Integration
- Short-Term Limited Duration (STLD) Health Plans
- Surprise Medical Bills
- Telehealth
- Universal Mental Health Screening
- Workforce: Peer Support Workers
- Workforce: Scholarship and Loan Repayment Programs
- Responding to Crises
- Stopping Harmful Practices
- Conversion Therapy
- Criminalization of People with Mental Illness
- Death Penalty
- Gun Violence Research
- Gun Violence: Purchase Waiting Periods
- Gun Violence: Safe Storage
- Limits on Gender-Affirming Care
- Police Use of Force
- Restraints and Seclusion: Schools
- Social Media Use and Impact on Mental Health
- Solitary Confinement
- Supporting Community Inclusion and Non-Discrimination
- Community-Based Competency Restoration
- Medicaid: Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
- Mental Health Inequities: LGBTQI Bigotry and Discrimination
- Mental Health Inequities: Racism and Racial Discrimination
- Problem-Solving Courts/Specialty Courts
- Re-entry Post Incarceration
- Social Determinants of Health: Employment
- Social Determinants of Health: Food Security
- Social Determinants of Health: Housing
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
- Improving Health
- State Advocacy Resources
- State Fact Sheets
Find local support
Connect with a NAMI chapter near you
Select your state to find a local NAMI affiliate. The page will redirect to the affiliate's page when a state is selected.
In need of help or support?
If you are struggling with your mental health, there are a variety of ways to connect with NAMI. Get immediate support by calling, texting or emailing.
The Public Policy Platform articulates where NAMI stands on issues related to its goal of helping individuals and families affected by mental illness build better lives.
NAMI also drafts resolutions on a number of topics:

For text-based versions of each policy position, please visit our Policy Priorities page.
Find local support
Connect with a NAMI chapter near you
Select your state to find a local NAMI affiliate. The page will redirect to the affiliate's page when a state is selected.
In need of help or support?
If you are struggling with your mental health, there are a variety of ways to connect with NAMI. Get immediate support by calling, texting or emailing.
