June 16, 2000
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.
READ MOREJune 16, 2000
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.
READ MOREJune 16, 2000
The national grassroots advocacy organization presented the NAMI Outstanding Media Awards during its 21st Annual Convention being held this week in San Diego.
READ MOREJune 15, 2000
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.
READ MOREJune 9, 2000
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.
READ MOREJune 6, 2000
Early onset of mental illnesses in children and adolescents will be a major focus at the annual convention of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), to be held in San Diego, CA, June 14-18, 2000.
READ MOREMay 31, 2000
The Vice-President has renewed his commitment today through announcement of a broad initiative for improved mental health care coverage.
READ MOREMay 25, 2000
The National Alliance for the Mentally (NAMI) is pleased to support the legislation introduced today by Senators Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) to provide for greater treatment of mental illnesses.
READ MOREMay 18, 2000
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) supports S. 796, the Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act, and recognizes the progress that today's hearing by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) represents.
READ MOREMay 16, 2000
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill today honored 52 psychiatrists with its 2000 NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrists Award during the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago.
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