Help NAMI Improve Emergency Care During Mental Health Crisis

Please help our National NAMI Education Team improve the experience of seeking treatment in an emergency department (ED) during a mental health crisis.

If you‘ve gone to an ED while experiencing a mental health crisis or have accompanied someone in crisis, please complete this survey by Wednesday, Nov. 5.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G5QCPP9

By sharing your experiences with us, you can help NAMI better prepare ED staff to meet everyone’s needs during this often traumatic and challenging time.

Please forward this survey invitation to your networks and distributions lists. And if you know anyone who meets this description, please also forward this survey to them. Results will be used to create training materials for ED staff. The more people who share their experiences, the better these materials will be.

Thanks for taking the time to share with us.

Violence and Behavioral Health Conference

Community Care Behavioral Health and Western Psychiatric are presenting a conference called:

 

Violence and Behavioral Health:

Developing an Evidence-Informed Community Agenda

Monday, Oct. 27

Sheraton Station Square.

 

The overlap of mental illness and violence has emerged as an issue of major importance on the clinical, community and public health levels with serious implications for the legal system and society overall. This conference will feature keynote presentations by Edward Mulvey, PhD and David Kolko, PhD both of whom have done definitive research in this area. It will also include workshops bringing together experts and community representatives to examine and discuss related topics. It aims at facilitating the translation of research findings into clinical practice with an examination of what more needs to be known and potentially done with a view toward prevention. It hopes to provide participants with a greater understanding of the relationship between mental illness and violence and measures the community can undertake to recognize and diffuse potentially violent situations.

 
Details can be found on the website, http://www.wpic.pitt.edu/oerp/conferences

Register online at classes.upmc.com (Search on Violence)

For additional information or to receive a brochure, please contact Nancy Mundy at mundynl@upmc.edu or (412) 204-9090.

 

NAMI Walk in the News

Prize Winners from the NAMI Walk

Thank you to everyone who participated in the NAMI Walk raffle program this year. Each $5 donation made or collected for a raffle ticket was a direct donation to NAMI Southwestern Pennsylvania. Special thanks to The Testoni Family who sponsored the raffle and these eight wonderful prizes. 

Winners were drawn on Walk Day, Oct. 5 at 11 a.m.  As always, the winners did not need to be present to win.

$500 Visa Gift Card - Lynda Marnoni

$250 Best Buy Card - Helen Vanover

$200 Macy's Gift Card - Deb Downey

$200 Target Gift Card - Mary Ingram

$100 Dick's Sporting Goods Card - Dorothy Ratesic

$100 Gas Card - Kathy Shucosky

$100 Amazon Gift Card - Becky Shucosky

$50 iTunes Card - Sylvia Chapple

Congratulations!

A Special Request From Our Executive Director

Dear Friends,

I am asking for your support of our largest fundraiser of the year, the 8th Annual NAMI Walk, this Sunday at the Waterfront.  

Each year the NAMI Walk raises an incredible amount of awareness for mental illness and helps to fund our programs throughout the entire year. 

 

How can you help?  In one of two ways: 

• You can walk with us on Sunday morning to raise awareness and celebrate recovery.  


• Or you can make a contribution directly to the NAMI Walk or to any of our teams or walkers.    

Every cent counts as we reach for our goal of raising $180,000 to support our mission of recovery focused support, education and advocacy. Thank you!

 

Sincerely,

Christine Michaels, MSHSA

Executive Director

NAMI Southwestern Pennsylvania