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Giving Tuesday – for donations to NAMI CCNS

Click to learn about how #GivingTuesday is coming to your neighborhood.  

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NAMI E-NEWS – 8 of Our Favorite Blogs from Buzzfeed’s Mental Health Week

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...

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Advocacy

NAMI E-NEWS – A Holiday Gift From the Senate

Late last week, the U.S. Senate passed a bill (S. 993) reauthorizing and expanding the Mentally Ill Offender and Treatment Crime Reduction Act (MIOTCRA). S. 993 expands the use of MIOTCRA...

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Advocacy

Shameful Scapegoating of Mentally Ill – editorial by Cook County Sherriff Tom Dart

Click *here* to see the article "Shameful Scapegoating of Mentally Ill" Editorial by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart Sunday, Nov 1, 2015, Chicago Tribune, p. 23

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Advocacy

Mental Health Advocates Call on ABC-TV to Drop Halloween Episode

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...

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Advocacy

Tell Congress To Focus On Early Intervention

Tell Congress To Focus On Early Intervention Email, call and tweet your Congressional Members today and ask them to attend a critically important briefing on the effectiveness of early intervention...

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Good News

New Mental Health Television PSAs: NAMI Launches

New Mental Health Television PSAs: NAMI Launches "Hope Starts with You" Campaign SAN FRANCISCO, July 8, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched "Hope Starts with...

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2016 NAMI CCNS Mental Health Reform Illinois April 25

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