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NAMI identifies its mission as "providing advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives" and its vision as "a world where all people affected by mental illness live healthy, fulfilling lives supported by a community that cares". [2]
using preventive strategies particularly for children at risk (such as children of parents with mental illness, or with family stresses such as divorce or job loss). [78] In India the 1982 National Mental health Programme included prevention, [79] but implementation has been slow, particularly of prevention elements. [80] [81] [82]
National Alliance on Mental Illness; National Association of the Deaf (1880) – an American organization that primarily serves the Deaf population and focuses on advocacy and services. National Autistic Society; National Disabled Women's Educational Equity Project
This includes prevention and protective strategies for individuals, families, and communities. Suicide can be prevented by learning the warning signs, promoting prevention and resilience, and committing to social change. [3] Beyond direct interventions to stop an impending suicide, methods may include: treating mental illness
In December 2011 Action Alliance partnered with Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Facebook to offer a new service to help offer suicide crisis worker access to users who were flagged by others for posting suicidal comment. [6] "
Child advocacy centers (CAC) provide a child-friendly, safe and neutral location in which law enforcement and Child Protective Services investigators may conduct and observe forensic interviews with children who are alleged victims of crimes, and where the child and non-offending family members receive support, crisis intervention and referrals for mental health and medical treatment.
Each year, beginning in January and running into the first full week of May (National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week), the National Federation runs their Green Ribbon Campaign. Started in mid-2005, this fundraising initiative aims to raise awareness of children's mental health issues and educate the general public on the needs of ...
[2]: 281 Those who provide such advocacy are called Independent mental health advocates, IMHA. IMHA complement the best interest advocacy where others make decisions based on what they think is in a service user, such as a psychiatric inpatient , best interest with representational advocacy which provides support for the patients autonomy ...