Advocacy
NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
NAMI fights for policies to ensure people get the best possible care. This includes expanding access to health coverage and parity for mental health, promoting early intervention and care integration and ensuring that the right services are available at the right time.
NAMI NYS
Our NAMI State Organization (NSO), NAMI NYS, works to improve state and local health care and government systems.
National
NAMI’s national office leads our Alliance on federal advocacy issues with Congress and the Executive Branch. NAMI takes a nonpartisan approach to advocate on a wide range of policy issues, including expanding access to health care coverage, advancing research, diverting people from justice system involvement, promoting early intervention and more.
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How You Can Help
Contact your local, State, and Federal legislators to get your voices heard on the need for greater understanding, funding, treatment, and research for New Yorkers affected by mental illness.