The most effective advocacy combines real world data with lived experience to paint a fuller, more compelling picture of the reality of mental illness.
We cannot go back to a time when health insurance was unavailable, inaccessible and discriminatory for people with mental health conditions. Instead, we must...
Using Our Voice to Protect the Mental Health of the LGBTQ+ Community
Your Story Can Change Hearts, Minds and Policy
Lessons in Advocacy from a State and Federal Legislative Staffer
Celebrating NAMI’s Role in Advocating for an Improved Criminal Justice System
How the Justice System Fails Those with Mental Illness
How Solitary Confinement Contributes to the Mental Health Crisis
All People Deserve Quality Care, Including Those Who Are Incarcerated
Impacting Mental Health Resources with Your Vote
How My Depression Made Me A Better State Representative
Everyone Deserves Adequate Mental Health Care
Opioids and Substance Abuse: What Can We Do?
Early Psychosis Programs Are Changing Lives—But What if You Can’t Find One?
Doctors Should Be Able to Access Mental Health Information
The Double Standard of Mental Illness
Building Bonds Behind Bars with NAMI Peer-to-Peer
Can Stigma Prevent Employment?
Outreach and Engagement for Early Psychosis
Navigating the Mental Health System with Dual Diagnosis
Suicide Prevention as a Social Justice Issue
Work is Recovery
Disparities Within Minority Mental Health Care
A Good Soldier: Surviving My Mother’s Life and Death
Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
The Stigma in Our Health Care System
Reasons to Attend NAMI’s Hill Day
Delivering on the Hope for Recovery
A Dog Story: Negotiating with the Airlines
World Health Day Spotlights Depression
The Art of Recovery: How Medicaid Changed Crystal’s Life
Medicaid Matters: Lifting a Family from Fear to Hope
Balanced Partnership Raises the Scale of Mental Health Awareness
The Reps are Back in Town: Make Your Voice Heard
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Mental Health Reform is a Law
Tell Us How Your Health Insurance is (or isn’t!) Working for You
Time is Ticking on Early Psychosis
Take the First Step for Mental Health Reform: Register to Vote
A Presidential Candidate Steps Out with a Mental Health Agenda
The Countdown is On: Time to Pass Mental Health in the Senate
NAMI Takes a Stand During a White House Mental Health Panel
A Voice at the Table: NAMI and Community Partnerships
Monthly Media Watch: Politics, Language and Stigma
Think Global, Act Local
More Money for Research and No Major Cuts To Mental Health Programs In Budget Bills
New Report Shows Challenges Facing People With Serious Mental Illness Living on SSI
Cruel and Unusual – It’s Time to End an American Tragedy
Mental Health Parity: Still a Long Way to Go
How Do We Fix America’s Mental Health Care System?
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