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NAMI Unveils Monitoring Project to Measure State Mental Health Care Systems and Provide “Dynamic Accountability”

[…] scrutiny for the project: Overviews of each state system, focusing especially on fiscal investments. Use of evidence-based interventions and services. Outcomes and climate, including levels of homelessness, suicide rates, excess mortality, emergency room use, and measures of cultural stigma in each state. Criminal justice issues, such as police training and procedures and jail diversion […]

Billy Graham’s 35,000 Souls: One in Five Will Experience Mental Illness

[…] rapes. Only a relatively small percent will become violent. More than half of those with schizophrenia-350-will not get treatment. Many will become homeless. Approximately 150 will commit suicide. "There are people in Cincinnati who feel left behind," Graham said. A few hours before, keynote speakers at the NAMI convention's opening session warned that mental […]

NAMI Urges Support for Paul Wellstone Mental Health Parity Act

[…] from personal experience how insurance discrimination can lead directly to financial devastation for families and the many tragedies associated with lack of access to mental illness treatment: suicide, broken families, homelessness, substance abuse and interaction with the criminal justice system. Paul Wellstone established a record of accomplishment on behalf of people with mental illness […]

Partnerships For Recovery

[…] Campbell WHY: should national and local news media cover this convention and all interested persons attend? Because one in four American families are affected by mental illnesses. Because suicide is the third-leading cause of death among youth, ages 15 to 24. Because for too long, people with mental illnesses have been cruelly stereotyped, neglected, abused […]

House Hearing out of Step with President Bush & Surgeon General

[…] heard the President’s message nor to have reviewed well–documented reports that show the tragic consequences of the nation’s failure to identify and treat children with mental illnesses. Suicide remains the 3rdleading cause of death for our nation’s 10-24 year old children and young adults and research identified in the U.S. Surgeon General’s report shows […]

Data Demands Urgent Action on New Freedom Report

[…] were all told by crisis workers… he needed ‘consequence' of misplacing meds…Request for doctor on call denied. "Requests repeated at 3 a.m. Sunday," the mother continued. " Suicide at 7:45 a.m. Sunday." Nationwide, treatment and support services are scarce, fragmented and often of poor quality, especially in rural America, according to respondents. "There was […]

NAMI Calls for Action Following Report on Brutal Mistreatment of U.S. Prisoners With Mental Illnesses

[…] including isolation, that can "push them over the edge" into acute psychosis.  An estimated 70,000 prisoner suffer from psychosis on any given day. Prisoners who have attempted suicide or self-mutilated have been punished for "destroying state property," Humans Rights Watch reports. Those who yell and kick cell doors because of hallucinations or smear feces […]

Community Leaders Identify Mental Health System As One of Most Overburdened Community Resources; Consequences Include Stressed Emergency Medical and Education Systems

[…] of respondents; Reason to Expand Access to Treatment: Nearly 80 percent of respondents cited as a very important reason to expand access to treatment the fact that suicide is the third leading cause of death among young Americans; Consensus on What to Do: Early detection and treatment of mental disorders was identified by 90 […]

NAMI MAINE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WINS NATIONAL AWARD FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP IN HELPING PRISONERS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

[…] been known to many of us within NAMI. It is wonderful to see her recognized now for her effectiveness at a broader national level." Influenced by the suicide of an 18-year-old inmate at a maximum-security prison, Carothers in 2000 launched an initiative to improve treatment for prisoners with mental illnesses and to find alternatives […]

NAMI Establishes New Multicultural Action Center

[…] Department of Mental Health and NAMI. MAC priorities include addressing: Disparities in treatment and services Lack of bilingual/bicultural mental health professionals Higher rates of misdiagnosis, institutionalization and suicide among youth of color Overrepresentation of people of color with mental illnesses in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Underrepresentation of people of color in research […]