NAMI News

Productivity is on the rise at the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) thanks to a $17,000 donation of Net services software from Novell, Inc.

Each scientist has contributed to a revolution in our understanding of the brain and its chemical mechanisms, which has opened the door to more effective treatments for schizophrenia and depression.

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is protesting a recent Congressional hearing held on "Behavioral Drug Use in Schools" for presenting a "skewed, inflammatory perspective" on issues surrounding the roles and responsibilities of parents, physicians and schools in screening children for mental illnesses and selecting treatment options.

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) says it's time to remove one of the last remaining vestiges of discrimination-unemployment--and begin hiring more people in recovery from mental illnesses within the mental healthcare system.

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) today is celebrating Congress' passage of legislation establishing national standards that restrict the use of restraints and seclusion (R/S) in all psychiatric facilities which receive federal funds and in "non-medical community-based facilities for children and youth.

NAMI is grateful to U.S. Representative Bill McCollum (R-FL) for holding the first Congressional hearing on the criminalization of mental illness. It is a tragedy of national proportions and represents a crisis of both the criminal justice system and our broader mental healthcare system.

On September 8, 2000, the National Consortium for Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services will hold its quarterly meeting, and celebrate 30 years as the forum in the nation's capital that focuses on issues which today are at the forefront of national concern.

As the August 24th execution date draws near, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has called on the Georgia State Board of Pardons & Parole to commute the death sentence of Alexander Williams, convicted of kidnapping, rape and murder at the age of 17.

On behalf of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), I respectfully ask you to spare the life of Alexander Williams, a man with a longstanding severe mental illness, by commuting his death sentence to a more humane alternative sentence. 

The National Alliance for the Mentally (NAMI) is pleased to support the Mental Health Early Intervention, Treatment, and Violence Prevention Act of 2000, introduced today by Representatives Ted Strickland (D-OH) and Heather Wilson (R-NM).