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Partners in Multicultural Mental Health Efforts

NAMI's Multicultural Action Center is privilaged to have a cadre of contacts around the U.S. and world with who support NAMI and its members in meeting the mental health needs of individuals from diverse communities. With our shared goals in eliminating stigma and discrimination, shaping governmental policies to better meet the needs of all people with mental illness and their family members and ensuring that these individuals live with dignity and respect regardless of their ethnic, racial, geographic, or cultural identities, the Multicultural Action Center is happy to consider these organizations/agencies as partners.

The following are the names (links where possible to further information) of other U.S. and international organizations/agencies working to address mental health needs of racial, ethnic and cultural diverse groups:

• Action For Mental Illness (ACMI) (India) 

  Become a partner! Please email us at MACenter@nami.org  to add a link to information about your organziation/ agency to this partner list.

• Alianza Nacional de Salud Mental (Chihuahua, Mexico)
• Alianza para la Depresión (España)
• The Alliance for the Mentally Ill of R.O.C. (Taiwan)
• APOIAR (Brazil)
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry
• Asociación Argentina de Ayuda a la Persona que Padece de Esquizofrenia y su Familia (APEF) 
• Asociación Maníaco Depresivos (Colombia)
• Asociación Salvadoreña de Familiares y Amigos de Pacientes Esquizofrénicos
• Association of Hispanic Mental Health Professionals
• Black Psychiatrists of America
• Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation - Boston University 
• Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
• Dar Es Salaam Voluntary Association (Tanzania)
• Federación Colombiana Para la Salud Mental (Colombia)
• Fundación Contener (Argentina)
• Fundación para Personas con Ezquizofrenia (FUCOPEZ)
• Fundación Luz y Vida (Paraguay)
• INGENIUM – Monterrey and Mexico City (Mexico)
• Latino Behavioral Health Institute
• Malaysian Mental Health Association (Malaysia)
• National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
• National Council of La Raza

• National Latino Behavioral Health Association

• National Organization of People of Color Against Suicide

• New Jersey Mental Health Institute
• Nodal Association for Mentally Ill (India)

• Richmond Fellowship (New Zealand)

• Samaritans Nepal
• South African Anxiety and Depression Group 
• Thessalian Association of Mental Health-Care Rehabilitation
• U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
• Voz Pro Salud Mental (Mexico)

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