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History of Mental Illness Awareness Week

National Alliance of Mental Illness (N.A.M.I) started as the Parents of Adult Schizophrenics, a nonprofit association that was made up of family support groups that were seeking answers and treatments for their loved ones affected by mental illness.

They then changed their name to Alliance for the Mentally Ill of San Mateo. The creation of this organization spurred a national movement where members pushed for more research, greater support, and broader public awareness. The growth of this movement resulted in the establishment of the National Alliance on Mental Illness: the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization.

In 1979 the National Alliance on Mental Illness was incorporated.

The Alliance opened its first offices in Washington in 1980, and in 1982 it was appointed to the National Mental Health Advisory Council.

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In 1984 “Shattered Dreams” and “Scrapbook” were aired nationally; these were N.A.M.I.’s first public service announcements. In 1990, N.A.M.I established the N.A.M.I HelpLine. In the same year, Congres

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