Mental Illness Awareness Week

October 4 – 10

Mental Illness Awareness Week

Education Need to Build Stronger Communities

In 1990, the U.S. Congress established the first week of October as “Mental Illness Awareness Week”  (MIAW) in recognition of NAMI’s efforts to raise mental illness awareness.  Since 1990, mental health advocates across the country have joined together during the first week of October to celebrate.

About 60 million Americans experience mental health problems in any given year. One in 17 lives with the most serious conditions.

NAMI is serving this year as national outreach partner for two PBS-TV documentaries, one or both of which will be airing.

The first is When Medicine Got It Wrong, the story of NAMI’s grassroots origins and founding as a national organization.  The second is Minds at the Edge, a “Fred Friendly Seminar” about current issues in the mental health care system.

Minds on the Edge is schedule to be viewed as follows:

Spokane on PBS World   KSPSDT2

Sunday, October 4, at 5am, 11am and 6 & 10pm

Seattle on KCTS-SD  Friday, October 9 at 12 noon