Texas Mental Health Resource

Via Hope, Texas Mental Health Resource is a training and technical assistance resource for mental health consumers, their family members, youth consumers, and professionals. Via Hope promotes mental health wellness across the lifespan. Via Hope provides mental health consumers and family members with information and education that assists with their recovery, enables them to better navigate the public and private mental health care systems and explains the supports that are available in the community.

Via Hope also provides training and certification for peer specialists. Creating jobs for persons who are in recovery from mental illness to help others with their recovery is a smart, cost-effective approach to expanding the mental health workforce and expanding employment opportunities for consumers.

Via Hope was created to provide a mental health consumer and family member driven system as part of the Texas Mental Health Transformation Project.

Via Hope is a collaborative effort of Mental Health America of Texas, National Alliance on Mental Illness Texas and the Department of State Health Services.

To learn more about Via Hope, please go to www.viahope.org.

The Disability Policy Consortium

Housing and Transportation Summit

April 28-29, 2010

Hyatt Regency Hotel
208 Barton Springs Road
Austin, Texas

Learn about advances in housing and transportation that help people with disabilities thrive in communities around the nation.

We had a wonderful time celebrating our 25th Anniversary. The workshops were great learning experiences, and our Gala and Silent Auction were successful.

Click here to see photos of the opening ceremony, our conference, our exhibit hall, our gala dinner and our silent auction. If you have photographs you would like to share, please send them to kjeschke@namitexas.org.

Click here to read Robin Peyson's Opening Welcome.

Pictured here are Affiliate President Ed Dickey, President-elect Kym Bolado, Basil Castelyn, Treasurer, NAMI Texas Board of Directors and a member of NAMI San Antonio and Jerry Fulenwider, member, NAMI San Antonio. (Click the photo to enlarge)

Faith Based Mental Health Outreach

The following helpful website resources have been posted for your use to aid in expanding your knowledge in addition to the Faith Based Mental Health Outreach Tool Kits that have been mailed out. These additional resources were too long to print for each notebook but we feel that they are very valuable resources. We hope that you will utilize them.

Decrease from Last Report Card:

Texas Struggles to Meet Need

See www.nami.org/grades2009 for the full report.

Who's The Doctor?

Insurers reject prescriptions to save money

This is agreat article on open access for medications, and why it is such an important issue for many individuals, especially those with mental illness. Look for the great quote from NAMI Missouri!
Click here to read the entire article

Your pharmacist may be changing your medications and what you don’t know could hurt you.
Click here to read this important May 2009 Prevention Magazine article.

Click here to read about the NAMI policy on medications and open access

Art Ruble, one of our participants in our advocacy training program provided the following testimony to the Texas Health and Human Services Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committee in support of open access. He did a great job sharing how important this issue is to him.
Click here to see a copy of his testimony.