NAMI continues its mental health work

NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) of Cumberland Plateau is a local affiliate of NAMI Tennessee and NAMI National. The local affiliate was chartered in 1992. It was known as PAMI then and the membership core came from Cumberland County Mental Health Association which was disbanded. We now have a membership of 43. The affiliate is operated by non-paid volunteers who are members and have experienced a mental illness in their family or of a loved one. NAMI of Cumberland Plateau serves as advocates for those with a serious and persistent mental illness by working with local government officials, law enforcement, NAMI Tennessee, and state legislators to bring about better services for the mentally ill. Our local affiliate provides for families and loved ones of those with serious and persistent mental illness in the... [read full story]                    

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