NAMI Ohio-Mental Health Budget Alert

Dear Mental Health Advocate:

The future of mental health services in Ohio is resting in the hands of the United States Congress.  If Congress does not include funding for states in the Federal Stimulus Package currently under consideration, we are told by Governor Strickland that 51,530 fewer Ohioans will receive mental health services, including individuals with bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia and other major disorders. 

We need your help.  Please contact your representative and Senators Voinovich and Brown in Washington and urge them to support state assistance in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  Let them know that without these funds, there are people with severe mental illness in Ohio who will die. 

Call the numbers below and ask to be connected to your Congressman and Senators.  If you are unsure who your representative is, click here:  http://www.oacbha.org/advocacy/congress.html.  

Your friends at the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Ohio (NAMI Ohio)