upcoming events
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Monday, October 19, 6:30 p.m. - Virtual
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NAMI Ramsey Board Meeting - Please join the NAMI Ramsey board in organizing mental health and mental illness support efforts in Ramsey County!
Register here. |
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Tuesday, October 20, 6:30 p.m. - Virtual
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Book Discussion - NAMI Ramsey president Mindy Greiling will be sharing her new memoir, Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker’s Fight for Her Son at this League of Women Voters meeting, sponsored by NAMI Ramsey and the Roseville Ramsey County Library.
The book chronicles her family's experience and legislative work in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Sue Abderholden, executive director for NAMI Minnesota, will provide additional remarks about the book and our mental health system. Books will be available for purchase online through Subtext Books. Register here. |
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Monday, October 26,
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Virtual |
NAMI Minnesota Fall Author Series: Mindy Greiling, NAMI Ramsey president - Author Mindy Greiling will read passages from her book Fix What You Can: Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son.
She served in the House of Representatives in Minnesota for 20 years, including 14 after her son was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder in 1999. She helped found the nation’s first state mental health caucus, which successfully lobbied for a significant increase in Minnesota’s mental health funding. She has served on state and national boards of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and is on the University of Minnesota Psychiatry Community Advisory Council. In his early twenties, Mindy Greiling’s son, Jim, was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder after experiencing delusions that demanded he kill his mother. At the time, and for more than a decade after, Greiling was a Minnesota state legislator who struggled, along with her husband, to navigate and improve the state’s inadequate mental health system. Fix What You Can is an illuminating and frank account of caring for a person with a mental illness, told by a parent and advocate. Learn more and register here. |
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Wednesday, October 28, 6:30 p.m. - Virtual
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Listening Session on Police Interactions in Mental Health Crises - Each year in Minnesota, approximately 50 percent of all deadly police-involved encounters involve a mental health crisis, and a recent survey reported that more than 90 percent of police departments in the state recorded an increase in calls related to mental health.
In an effort to more fully understand what leads up to, and what occurs during these interactions, the Ramsey County affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is sponsoring a listening session. The listening session is for those with a mental illness or those with loved ones with a mental illness who have had an encounter with police. NAMI Ramsey County board members will listen to the stories and share what they learn with Ramsey County lawmakers, county law enforcement, social workers, and thought leaders. Ultimately, the goal of the session is to better serve those in a mental illness crisis in need of an intervention. The hope is to learn more about interactions which result in productive, helpful results, and those which result in an escalation of the situation. We hope you will share your story to help improve police interactions with those experiencing a mental health crisis. Register here. |
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Saturday, November 14
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Virtual |
NAMI Minnesota 2020 State Conference - Keynote speakers include Patrice Harris, MD; Tom Insel, MD; and Susan Bartlett Foote, JD, MA.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's event will be held digitally via Zoom. Prior to the conference, all registrants will be sent a PDF of zoom links to join the keynotes and breakout sessions. This year's conference will feature 7 breakout sessions, with sessions of interest for professionals, individuals living with mental illnesses, family members, advocates, and students. Learn more and register here. |
Interested in hosting a class or presentation for your business or organization? Send us an email at namiramseycounty@namimn.org and tell us what you're looking for.
annual EVENTS
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NAMIWALKSNAMIWalks is always the last Saturday in September. Save the date!
Sign up for our walk updates here. |
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Member picnic |
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Day on the hillHelp us advocate for mental health: learn key issues, lobby your legislators, and rally in the Capitol Rotunda!
March 2021 |
Contact us
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phone |
651.645.2948 x 126
651.645.2948 x 117 (helpline) |
address |
NAMI Minnesota
Attn: NAMI Ramsey County 1919 University Ave. W #400 St. Paul, MN 55104 |
A proud affiliate of NAMI Minnesota.
