Click *here* to download your own copy of the 2016 NAMI Social Media Toolkit: Mental Health Month & Stigmafree OFFICIAL HASHTAGS #StigmaFree #MentalHealthMonth #MentalHealthReform NAMI SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/NAMI/ Twitter – @NAMICommunicate Instagram – @NAMICommunicate YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/NAMIvideo/ EDITORIAL CALENDAR & CONTENT (OVERVIEW) May 1-7 Take the Pledge May 8-14 Share May...

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WBEZ News – Excruciating Choice: Trading Parental Custody For Mental Health Care WBEZ story on parents of children with serious mental illness https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/excruciating-choice-trading-parental-custody-for-mental-health-care/f95bf45f-f284-4909-adb9-812ae2ef73a9?utm_source=url&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Web-Share

5K Run (USATF Certified) and Walk 2016 Kickoff and Registration! Form your team or sign up as a individual/team runner or walker, virtual walker, or sponsor for NAMI CCNS 5K Run Walk 2016 to be held in Park Ridge at Washington School, 1500 Stewart Ave. Check in at 7:00 Run...

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Here is a list of our favorite blogs from Buzzfeed’s Mental Health Week. So happy to have them on our Stigmafree team! ‪#‎IamStigmaFree‬ 8 of Our Favorite Blogs from Buzzfeed’s Mental Health Week Buzzfeed recently had their first ever Mental Health Week where they posted nearly 150 blogs on the subject....

Link to press release: Mental Health Advocates Call on ABC-TV to Drop Stigmatizing Halloween Episode Mental Health Advocates Call on ABC-TV to Drop Halloween Episode Modern Family’s Episode Stigmatizes Mental Illness; Decision to Air is “Callous” ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) today...

NOTE: Go to SkokieTheatre.org and use the discount code: NAMI.  Please share! Each ticket purchased with code NAMI will receive a $5 discount, plus MadKap Productions will donate another $5 to NAMI CCNS. This riveting musical won three Tony Awards in 2009 and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for drama due...

Meet Anna Berry, author of the book Unhinged: A Memoir of Enduring, Surviving, and Overcoming Family Mental Illness. Anna Berry will discuss her book and facing mental illness, her own and that of her family. Berry describes the experience of mental illness and her struggle to break the cycle in her family. Her story is candid, poignant,...