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National Alliance on Mental Illness



NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, founded in 1979 as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, is an American non-profit national advocacy group for people affected by serious mental illnesses and their families. NAMI has advocated for the routine availability of evidence-based practices and promotes assertive community treatmentclaims to have over 200,000 members, offices in all fifty states, and 1200 affiliates across the United States.



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