Nami Minnesota

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Nov 21, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$1,302,487

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Public awareness and membership: to provide the support that individuals living with a mental illness and their families need, nami offered 64 ongoing peer-to-peer support groups statewide in fiscal year 2013. These groups support family members, adults living with a mental illness, parents of children, spouses/partners, adult sons and daughters and lgbtq-identified people. In addition to support groups, nami offers classes for youth and young adults to help them understand their own mental illnesses or those of a parent or sibling. Additionally, nami started an experienced parent program in dakota county where parents new to the mental health system are matched with more experienced parents. Nami also provides advice and help to individuals and family members through our help line advocates who respond to over 3,000 phone calls and e-mails annually. We also have nine booklets on various mental health topics, with two new ones published this year to help families understand the juvenile justice system and inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations. To further promote the importance and awareness of the latest mental health issues and research, nami hosts a research dinner at the university of minnesota department of psychiatry each year, as well as the annual nami state conference. The goal of these events is to showcase new research to individuals who live with mental illnesses, their families and professionals and to provide information about new studies that need participants. Nami also partnered with postpartum support international to host a conference in 2013 that presented research and educational information about postpartum depression. These three events reached over 500 people this year.

Activity 3

Advocacy and public policy: changing attitudes is hard work. This year staff and volunteers conducted 111 presentations to 3,777 people at workplaces, community settings and major conferences. These presentations included in our own voice, understanding stigma, mental illnesses in the workplace and mental illness 101. Nami had booths at over 86 events, including the minnesota state fair. The information conveyed in these presentations and booths helps build awareness of mental illnesses and reduce stigma felt by those living with a mental illness. Nami is the states outreach partner for the national institute of mental health which provides us with an opportunity to distribute their materials and promote research, further broadening the impact we have as an agency. The johnson and johnson dartmouth ips supported employment project selected nami minnesota to create a family advocacy team to promote this evidence-based practice for employment supports for people with serious mental illnesses. Our anti-stigma efforts have included partnering with east metro hospitals to develop posters for inpatient units and expanding nami in the lobby where nami volunteers serve as a resource to other families. With the lack of information about and prevalence of mental illnesses, nami works to reach out where ever it can across the state to provide useful materials and information for anyone and everyone who could benefit. Nami reached out to 13,000 people through our quarterly newsletter, bimonthly eblasts, facebook, and twitter. This last fiscal year information about or quotes from nami appeared in 1,888 articles in 131 newspapers. The website received over 43,884 unique visitors. We have also launched a new website for youth to provide more age-appropriate resources and information to youth and young adults. Nami minnesota works as a leader in the public policy arena and participates in over 40 different task forces and advisory committees to ensure that policy makers are aware of the needs of children and adults with mental illnesses and their families. Governor dayton appointed namis executive director to the health care exchange advisory committee. This last session, major improvements were made to the childrens mental health system thanks to namis leadership. This work is of utmost importance, as it helps create the systematic changes that are necessary to improve the mental health care system.

Filer

EIN

41-1317030