Back to School with the NAMI Child and Adolescent Action Center

Back to School with the NAMI Child and Adolescent Action Center The NAMI Child and Adolescent Action Center (CAAC) changes the lives of children and adolescents living with mental illness and their families through advocacy, support and education. Our goal is to build and support grassroots advocacy to ensure children's mental health care reform at the local, state and national levels. Why Support the CAAC? Each school year, the CAAC works with NAMI grassroots leaders to educate school and other child-serving professionals about the early warning signs of mental illness with the Parents and Teachers as Allies program. The CAAC aims to keep youth where they belong -- in their communities with their families -- by focusing attention on the crisis occurring in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The CAAC provides families with tools on how to effectively advocate for their child within the school system. Along with other free resources, the CAAC offers NAMI Beginnings, a quarterly magazine that focuses on children's mental health issues. The CAAC provides facts about child and adolescent mental health, treatment options and the various systems that serve youth online. This school year, support youth living with mental illness. Support the Child and Adolescent Action Center. $10 will help NAMI to develop a school-based tool kit for families. $25 helps the CAAC expand Parents and Teachers as Allies to more schools across the country. $50 enables us to continue to mail free copies of child and adolescent mental health resources to families and NAMI leaders for one month. $100 enables NAMI to host free, monthly children's conference calls with NAMI Medical Director Ken Duckworth, M.D. for an entire year. NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness 3803 N. Fairfax Dr., Ste. 100 Arlington, VA 22203 For fastest unsubscribe results follow these instructions: 1.) Log in to your NAMI.org account by clicking here 2.) Select "mySubscriptions" from the tabs underneath the "myNAMI" graphic 3.) Uncheck the box next to "I would like to receive general e-mail updates from NAMI" 4.) Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page 5.) You will then be unsubscribed immediately If you were unable to complete the fast unsubscribe, please email: webmaster@nami.org Please do not reply to this email (it will go to an unattended mailbox.) If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this email, please send an email to webmaster@nami.org.