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Using Lived Experience to Adapt Mental Health Language
By using the language of people with lived experience, we can create a more person-centered approach to the way we all talk about mental health. -
Letter to Senate Committee Leadership on Gun Violence Research
Letter to Senate Appropriations leadership, requesting $50M in funding shared evenly between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention. -
Letter to Congressional Bill Sponsors on COVID-19 Research and Treatment Innovation
Letter to Representatives Tonko and Katko, expressing support for the reintroduction of H.R. 6645, the “COVID-19 Mental Health Research Act,” which directs HHS to conduct or support research on the mental health consequences of COVID-19. -
Black Mental Health and the Importance of 988 Legislation
"The intersectionality of racism, mental health, law enforcement, homelessness and often self-medication via illicit drug use has decimated the Black community." -
Criminal Justice Reform Means Reforming the Mental Health System
Robust crisis-response systems include services such as 24/7 crisis hotlines, crisis respite centers, mobile outreach and mobile crisis units. -
NAMI Seeks Participants for Survey on Lived Experience of Borderline Personality Disorder
NAMI is conducting a Virtual Advisory Panel — an online platform for participants to anonymously answer a survey on how Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) affects their life, work and relationships. -
Letter to HHS Secretary on Treatment Innovation
Letter to HHS Acting Secretary Cochran, urging the withdrawal of the proposed rule on extramural research involving human fetal tissue. -
Letter to President Biden on Treatment Innovation
Letter to President Biden, urging to rescind the human fetal tissue research restrictions and policy changes that the Department of Health and Human Services made in 2019. -
NAMI Hosting Free, Virtual Inspiring Hope Through Research Event
This year’s award honoree, Dr. David C. Henderson, is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center and Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. -
By July 2022, 9–8–8 will be the Nationwide Mental Health Crisis and Suicide Prevention Number
The law enables states to enact fees similar to those in place for 9-1-1 that will support the need for expanded services at the local level to receive and respond to crisis calls.