NAMIWalks 2018! Saturday, Oct. 13, 9 am Roger Williams Park, Providence Join a Team or Start Your Own. Join fellow Rhode Islanders and thousands of concerned citizens from across the nation for NAMIWalks 2018 on Saturday, Oct. 13, at Roger Williams Park in Providence. This powerful community event raises awareness about the issue of mental more »
Read MoreOpen the Conversation. End the Silence. “I wish we could get on a loud speaker and tell people to wake up.” That’s how one NAMI support group facilitator describes the need to open the conversation around mental illness. We can’t change minds overnight, but each one of us can play a role in ending the more »
Read MoreBy G. Wayne Miller, Staff Writer, The Providence Journal Raised in dire circumstances, living with mental-health challenges, Jeremiah Rainville will be honored with a national Inspiration Award CRANSTON — This is not how the story usually goes. You do not survive childhood abuse, a succession of foster homes, the trauma of a mentally ill mother more »
Read MoreCommentary in The Providence Journal by Ruth Feder and David Spencer. The Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (the ACA) with the American Health Care Act has been withdrawn. For consumers of behavioral health services, this is very good news. This plan would have dramatically reduced the number of individuals who more »
Read MoreLetter to the Editor, The Providence Journal, March 26, 2017 The health-care bill that went before the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday paired social injustice with fiscal irresponsibility. Nearly one out of three people covered by the Medicaid expansion lives with a mental health or substance use condition. The proposed American Health Care Act more »
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