What is NAMI Provider Education?
The NAMI Provider Education Program is a 10-week course that presents a penetrating, subjective view of family and consumer experiences with serious mental illness to line staff at public agencies who work directly with people with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
The course helps providers realize the hardships that families and consumers [...]

Stressed Out? New Social Networking Site for College-Age Adults: Mental Health, Music and More –
ARLINGTON, Va., April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Freshman year. Final exams. Life after graduation. The pressures of college transitions involve many competing demands, including in some cases, mental health concerns.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has launched StrengthofUs.org, [...]

SAMHSA, along with the Ad Council and the Inspire USA Foundation, today launched a new Teen Suicide Prevention national public service campaign, the first teen suicide prevention effort from SAMHSA to utilize a national mass media strategy, as well as a robust digital outreach program.
The public service announcement (PSA) campaign-We Can Help Us-was developed out [...]

What is NAMI Provider Education?
The NAMI Provider Education Program is a 10-week course that presents a penetrating, subjective view of family and consumer experiences with serious mental illness to line staff at public agencies who work directly with people with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
The course helps providers realize the hardships that families and consumers [...]

COALITION URGES JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE TO REJECT $10.8 MILLION PRISON EXPANSION
In Time of Severe Budget Crisis, Funding of CSP II is the Wrong Solution at the Wrong Cost
Denver, Colo. — Representatives from a diverse coalition of organizations are urging the Joint Budget Committee to reject $10.8 million in new funding to open Colorado State Prison [...]

The NAMI Provider Education Program was designed to help line staff at public agencies learn this new approach by attending a 30-hour course. In 10 weeks, staff are given basic classes in diagnosis, brain research and medications, plus specific sessions on how to work with clients and families in a collaborative manner. The primary knowledge [...]

What: NAMI-CS Annual Breakfast Meeting
Where: Clarion Hotel, 314 W. Bijou (I-25 & Bijou)
When: April 24, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
Guest Speaker: Award Winning Author Ann Kochenberger
Ann Kochenberger is the award winning author of Out of Focus…Again, a memoir about Ann’s struggle with bipolar disorder and her difficult journey to recovery. It’s a story of hope and [...]

New York Times article on The Americanization of Mental Illness
By ETHAN WATTERS
Published: January 8, 2010
AMERICANS, particularly if they are of a certain leftward-leaning, college-educated type, worry about our country’s blunders into other cultures. In some circles, it is easy to make friends with a rousing rant about the McDonald’s near Tiananmen Square, the Nike factory [...]

A new pharmacy in Colorado Springs is providing low income residents with free prescription drugs. The Lord Cares (TLC) Pharmacy officially opened its doors on January 4th. TLC is one of less than ten central-fill pharmacies in the county who can qualify needy patients for Institutional Prescription Assistance Programs, and dispense prescriptions on the spot
There [...]

The CS Independent GIVE! Campaign closed on 31 December, 2009. The campaign surpassed its goal of $150,000 and of that over $4700 was donated to NAMI Colorado Springs! Thanks to everyone who donated to this year’s GIVE! Campaign!