NAMIWalks NYC is May 12! Join us for a Kickoff Event January 31 at Stitch Bar & Lounge. Get started early by registering today. The larger the crowd, the louder the voice!

Thank you to NAMI volunteers who participated in our mail-in volunteer survey. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and will be used to help us improve the volunteer experience at NAMI. As promised, we have chosen the two raffle ticket winners today. The winning numbers are: 0587223 and 0587266. Please call Noelina at 212-684-3365 or visit our office to claim your $25 Starbucks gift card. Although the raffle has been completed, you can still send us a completed survey if you have not done so yet. Thank you all for your amazing work.

NAMI Basics classes start in January. Download the schedule [PDF]. 

Six sessions of NAMI's Family-to-Family course will be offered this spring. Download the schedule [PDF].

Read a story about treatment for anxiety disorders from the Los Angeles Times, featuring NAMI-NYC Metro staffer Katie Linn discussing her own experiences.

Thank you to everyone who made the 2011 Seeds of Hope gala a major success! We are grateful for the tremendous support of our donors, sponsors and friends. Please take a look at our 2011 photo gallery!

Read NAMI-NYC Metro's letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to an editorial describing accounts of veterans waiting months to receive mental health care.

Read our testimony about OMH's five-year plan for mental health services here [PDF].

A Bronx family that benefited from the six-week NAMI Basics class is profiled in this story from NY1. 

As many as one in five child welfare cases involves a parent with a mental health diagnosis. NAMI's partnership with the NYC Administration for Children's Services to help parents succeed is mentioned in this story from City Limits.

Read board member Jacqueline Martinez's letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to this story about the link between mental health disorders and substance abuse.

Read a column in the New York Daily News about NAMI's Family-to-Family Program. To learn more about this class or to sign up for the next session (coming this fall), call the Helpline at 212-684-3264.

Read our letter to the editor of the New York Times in response to a troubling front-page story on an incident in Massachusetts.

NAMI-NYC Metro's study of Timothy's Law, New York State's parity law, was published in leading journal Psychiatric Services. Read the study results here. Our Op-Ed for the Times Union of Albany can be found here. Read other stories in Long Island Business News and Mental Health News.

Read a story about the 2011 NAMIWalks NYC in the Wall Street Journal.

Read our letter to the editor in the New York Daily News about how educators and police must learn skills to handle children with serious emotional and mental disorders.

Watch a story about bipolar disorder from WABC-7 featuring NAMI's Executive Director Wendy Brennan and Adria Allison, a facilitator of classes and support groups at NAMI-NYC Metro. You'll find it here.

NAMI-NYC Metro Executive Director Wendy Brennan is featured in a story about Medicaid redesign from WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. Listen to the story here.

Parents from NAMI-NYC Metro headed to Albany in February to press for mental health education in New York public schools and an end to discrimination against parents with mental illness. Read the press release [PDF].