News & Updates
Call to Mind Live: Preventing Teen Suicide in a Pandemic of Isolation
Many teens are still cut off from valuable connections since the pandemic shut down schools. Friends and teachers are less available. Remote learning has shifted reality pausing clubs, sports and extracurricular activities that gave so many teens added purpose and...
Open Letter to Ohio’s Congressional Delegation Concerning Rule Change in the Six Protected Classes of Medicare Part D
March 3, 2021 Open Letter to Ohio’s Congressional Delegation Concerning Rule Change in the Six Protected Classes of Medicare Part D The organizations undersigned on this letter advocate for Ohioans with critical needs for medication. Our patients must have dependable,...
Pandemic focuses funding on mental health, but advocates say more is needed: Coping through COVID
View article on Cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s budget recommendations increase funding for mental health and addiction treatment services that have been vital throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposals have garnered the support of...
2022/2023 State Budget
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 8, 2021 Contact: Luke Russell, 614-224-2700 Luke@namiohio.org The National Alliance on Mental Illness for Ohio commends Governor DeWine’s 2022/2023 State Budget for the focus on those with serious behavioral health needs. The dollars...
On Inauguration Day, NAMI Calls for Addressing Mental Health: the Silent Epidemic within the Pandemic
Jan 20, 2021 https://nami.org/Press-Media/Press-Releases/2021/On-Inauguration-Day-NAMI-Calls-for-Addressing-Mental-Health-the-Silent-Epidemic-within-the-Pandemi Arlington, Va. — As the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization, the National...
NAMI Athens Recognizes Local Schools
Written by: Alan Johnson, NAMI Ohio It turned out 2020 was a banner year for Athens County schools.While the COVID-19 pandemic seriously affected all students and teachers, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Athens affiliate wanted to recognize the strength and...
We Won’t Let Suicide Win
Written by: Alan Johnson It was after 3 a.m. when Donna Heck got the call she had been dreading for years, but somehow expecting. Good news rarely comes in the middle of the night. “This is it,” she said solemnly to her husband, Jeff. Something bad had happened to...
Stepping Up Initiative
Mental illness affects 30 percent of all inmates in Ohio jails, triggering a growing public health crisis and avalanche of unnecessary costs to taxpayers. Stepping Up, a state and national collaborative effort led here by former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn...
NAMI Ohio’s Social Justice Statement
NAMI Ohio, “the state’s voice on mental illness” is governed by a 28-member board of directors. There are six members from four different regions of the state; three At-Large members and a Consumer Council representative. This is a very diverse group of members...