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...your major allies has been the advocacy group The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Tell me about how you first got involved with them. The Alliance has been the instrument of many, many good things. Our daughter was 17, going on 18, when she began showing symptoms of [schizophrenia]. We started stopping by their meetings after work and we quickly found out that, in spite of us having a child who had problems, there were so much more serious ones than ours. We ran into parents with two children who are schizophrenic, and they tried desperately to keep them...
...NAMI SUNG ’09 of Queens, N.Y. and Winthrop House Associate Photography Chair...
Kara A. Culligan ’09 Nami Sung ’09 FM Photo Czars...
...founder of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Inglewood (California). NAMI is a 27-year-old advocacy organization for mentally ill people and their family members. Our chapter is kind of the new kid on the block. In that capacity, I work as a facilitator with the support group, and I hear a lot of stories. We teach a 12-week course on the major brain diseases. I trained for that. So I've learned about this just through my own means, but NAMI has played a critical role in increasing my education...
...makes a whopping 400-500 public appearances during a year, and spends “eight hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year” on various facets of her position. Lawless serves as spokesperson for numerous organizations, including the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Not My Kid Organization, which she describes as a small but growing mental health advocacy group. These days, Lawless seems to have no trouble getting out of bed in the morning. “I’m out of town as much...