2015 is here, along with the opportunity to positively impact the lives of individuals with serious mental illness and grow social justice in your local communities. While you were preparing for the holiday season, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), The National Council for Behavioral Health (National Council), Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc., and Lundbeck, announced the winners of the 2014 Community Innovation Awards. Four notable community based models were selected from one of four service areas. These service areas include early intervention, the creative use of technology, continuity of care, and service integration.
As Mary Giliberti, Executive Director of NAMI, states in the Connect 4 Mental Health, Community Innovation Awards Press Release: "A key to achieving positive outcomes and preventing negative consequences such as homelessness and poverty, is through sustainable collaboration between individuals, providers and systems, making C4MH an important catalyst for facilitating these types of collaborative efforts." For those individuals and families living with serious mental illness and struggling to avoid crisis, these words could not ring more true.
[For more of this story, written by Ginger Lerner-Wren, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...resol_b_6394810.html]
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