NAMI News

As the August 24th execution date draws near, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) has called on the Georgia State Board of Pardons & Parole to commute the death sentence of Alexander Williams, convicted of kidnapping, rape and murder at the age of 17.

On behalf of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), I respectfully ask you to spare the life of Alexander Williams, a man with a longstanding severe mental illness, by commuting his death sentence to a more humane alternative sentence. 

The National Alliance for the Mentally (NAMI) is pleased to support the Mental Health Early Intervention, Treatment, and Violence Prevention Act of 2000, introduced today by Representatives Ted Strickland (D-OH) and Heather Wilson (R-NM).

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) strongly supports S. 2274, The Family Opportunity Act of 2000, and recognizes the important progress that today's Senate Budget Committee hearing represents.

Delegates to the national convention of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) in California on June 14-18, 2000, elected two new members to the organization's board of directors, as well as re-electing the organization's incumbent president.

NAMI will present its Outstanding Media Awards during its annual convention to select members of the media for their accurate and balanced presentation of people with mental illnesses.

As the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) began its 21st annual convention yesterday, attention focused for more than a moment on a speech by Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) on national disability policy, delivered more than three thousand miles away, in Portland, Maine.

The national grassroots advocacy organization presented the NAMI Outstanding Media Awards during its 21st Annual Convention being held this week in San Diego.

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), the nation's leading grassroots advocacy organization solely dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses, opens it's annual convention today at the Town & Country Resort Hotel. 

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill today launched a national protest against the new Jim Carrey movie, Me, Myself & Irene, which is scheduled to premiere in Hollywood on June 15 and be released nationally on June 23-claiming that the movie and its promotional campaign represent "gross ignorance and insensitivity" to people with mental illnesses and their families.