NAMI News

Mary Giliberti, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offered the following statement in conjunction with a House of Representatives oversight hearing titled "Where Have All the Patients Gone? Examining the Psychiatric Bed Shortage."

Shepherds for Lost Sheep, a project started by veterans to help their compatriots, uses dogs to help those who are still battling the effects of war.

March is National Social Work Month. Social workers can be found in many fields and many provide needed help to individuals with mental illness.

President Obama's proposed budget for 2015 includes increases for mental illness research and additional funding for early intervention and mental health workforce development.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) today issued the following statement by NAMI Executive Director Mary Giliberti in response to the announcement by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) that it will not move forward to "finalize" proposed rule changes under Medicare Part D that would have restricted access to antidepressant and antipsychotic medications:

Physical injuries often have a whole team to address them, but mental health concerns are often left out.

Dr. Dilip Jeste points to four types of psychosocial treatments to ensure individuals with schizophrenia age successfully.

Actress Halle Berry appears on the cover of the latest issue of The Advocate, the magazine of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), with an interview inside about her upcoming film, Frankie & Alice, which will be re-released April 4, 2014 by Lionsgate and Codeblack Films.

With new technology, scientists are taking a deeper look in the human genome to find the cause of schizophrenia.

Dr. Geoffrey Phillips is helping fight the stigma of mental illness through his Happy Circle trilogy, written “for all ages and all brains.”