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 Monthly educational and support group meetings for families of the mentally ill.
- Support group for families on the 4th Wednesday of each month. Education meeting 2nd Thursday of each month both at 7:00pm at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 4007 Main Street, Amherst, NY.
- Providing information and referral service which responds to more than 2000 requests a year.
- Maintaining a circulating library of books and tapes on topics related to mental illness used by patients, professionals, students, and the community.
- Offering the 12-week Family-to-Family educational course for families.
- Providing client/family advocacy in the mental health system.
- Publication of The Mind Matters. A Practical Guide to Mental Health Services in Erie County.
- Reporting serious lapses in care to oversight, licensing, and regulatory authorities.
- Sponsoring periodic educational conferences for families, patients, and mental health professionals.
- Maintaining a speakers bureau which has given over 200 presentations at workshops, seminars, conferences, civic, social and religious gatherings; providing lecturers for college, university, and
high school classes and faculty; in-service training for professionals in the County Department of Social Services, the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, Gowanda Psychiatric Center, and Spectrum
Human Services, among others.
- Providing holiday and birthday gifts for 600 mentally ill children and adolescents and their families.
- Providing accurate information to the media to correct inaccurate and negative stereotypes of the mentally ill.
- Working with elected and appointed government officials, mental health administrators and staff, to develop accurate assessments of the quality of public mental health services for the mentally
ill and to increase availability and accessibility of services.
- Sending representatives of NAMI to testify before various governmental committees, task forces, commissions, hearings, etc. on the needs of the mentally ill, and to serve as members of such
committees and task forces.
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