Category Archives: NAMI

End 'two-tier' mental-health care system, Michael Kirby urges …

Only a quarter of Canadian children with mental illness are getting the help they need, says the retired senator who chaired a landmark report on mental health in Canada a decade ago.

Editorial: Let's talk about funding for mental health care | Ottawa …

It is good that the stigma surrounding mental illness is falling away. But hospitals and other care facilities are still struggling to offer proper care, as shown by the gut-wrenching case of a local teen who was bounced around …

CEU Opportunity: Online Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral …

Online Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Training The Board of Behavioral Health has approved this training for 10 CEUs through December 31,

NAMI Warns Senate about Criminalization of Mental Illness – NAMI …

10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) today warned the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that criminalization of people living with mental illness has reached “crisis …

Letter to the Editor: Please recognize mental illness | Herald Times …

Treatment for mental health illness involves individual medication management and counseling that requires continual therapy, support, medication changes and adjustments. On Aug. 26, 2014, as I took Logan to the hospital …