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Four Decades of Resilience: One Family’s Perspective on Our Mental Health System
My daily work keeps me busy with priorities focused on developing strategies and initiatives launching and commercializing holistic therapies that have vast potential to impact lives in the mental health space. Healthcare has always been endlessly fascinating to me, but this work is especially close to my heart. Over the last four decades, my family […] -
Letter to Congressional Committee Leadership on Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health Funding
Letter of support to urge the House Ways and Means Committee to include the Promoting Community Based Prevention Services Act (H.R. 8798) in Title IV-B in order to establish a federal definition for Family Resource Centers. -
Regulatory Comment to the DOJ in Response to Proposed Rescheduling of Marijuana
Regulatory comment to the U.S. Department of Justice in response to its proposal to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). -
Medical Debt and Care-seeking for Mental Health Conditions
Cost is consistently identified as a reason that people do not seek mental health care, and the study investigates the relationship between medical debt and individuals’ medical history and care-seeking behaviors.
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Congressional Hearing in Harlem Tackles Black Men’s Mental Health
On Friday, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (FL-24), Chair of the U.S. Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, and Reverend Al Sharpton hosted a field hearing with top mental health leaders on Suicide and Mental Health of Black Men and Boys. Mr. Daniel H. Gillison, Jr., CEO of the National Alliance on Mental […] -
NAMI Polling and State Legislative Brief Highlight Opportunities to Improve Federal and State Mental Health Crisis Response After Two Years of 988 Lifeline
NAMI report highlights states’ progress in addressing crisis response, but new NAMI/Ipsos polling finds Americans continue to have low familiarity of 988 while strongly supporting efforts to reimagine nation’s mental health crisis system Arlington, VA — On the eve of the second anniversary of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline’s nationwide availability, the National Alliance […] -
2023 State Legislation Issue Brief Series: Trends in State Policy: 988 and Reimagining Crisis Response
Overview In recognition of the second anniversary of 988’s nationwide availability, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) released a new publication, Trends in State Policy: 988 and Reimagining Crisis Response. This issue brief highlights state legislation passed in 2023 that works to reimagine the mental health crisis response system. Too often, people experiencing a mental […] -
Preventing suicides by Black males is focus of Harlem congressional hearing
It’s a difficult but important topic that often doesn’t get spoken about. However, on Friday, some leaders in Congress were on hand at a Harlem forum to listen to advocates give voice to the need for Black men and boys to have access to mental health resources. “Only 33% of Black adults with mental health […] -
Regulatory Comment to DOJ on Criminal Justice and Research and Treatment Innovation
Regulatory comment in support of the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s (BJA) proposed “Death in Custody Reporting Act Program Collection.” -
NAMI, Grassroots Advocates Call on FCC to Improve 988 Routing to Support Local Response
NAMI and NAMI advocates last month called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ensure that calls to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline are routed to local call centers while protecting callers’ personal information. NAMI advocates provided more than half of all comments received during the comment period, urging quick action to connect people […]