Actress Patti Duke & Filmmaker Katie Cadigan at NAMI Walk San Francisco 5/30
May 30, 2009
Dear Editors/Reporters/Producers,
NAMI is help for the Bonnie Sweetens of this nation----
The news headlines are full of people going over the edge due to economic and life stresses from suicides to Bonnie Sweeten who endangered herself, her daughter and others as she claimed Black men had kidnapped her and her child and placed them in a trunk. (Anyone remember Susan Smith, Union South Carolina, 1994?) NAMI--- the National Alliance on Mental Illness helps people overcome anxieties and fears and help them cope with mental illness.
Today's walk in Golden Gate Park is not exactly a "walk in the park." NAMI serves a serious role and the walk and money raised has a substantive impact on lives.
Your coverage is greatly appreciated. Please note the service of NAMI and its mental health experts expand beyond this annual event. Experts and stories are available to you year round.
Sincerely,
Jackie Wright
http://www.wrightnow.biz/articles_view.asp?columnid=2898&articleid=57455
News Release
For Immediate Release
May 30, 2009
Media Contact: Day of Event Site Contact:
Gina Snow, 415 312 6414 (cell)
Office: Jackie Wright,
415 525.0410 (cell)
or Laurie Williams, 800-556-2401
San Francisco-The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than $100 billion dollars each year in the United States. Unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives are the result of untreated mental illness. Because of those staggering consequences, Dixon Financial Services, John Muir Mt. Diablo Health Systems, Bregante Company , Telecare Corporation and AstraZeneca, Mills-Peninsula Health Service, van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation and other sponsors partnered with the National Alliance On Mental Illness, NAMI to take action and you can too!
Join the volunteers on Saturday May 30 at Golden Gate Speedway Meadow to walk for the "Campaign for the Mind" 5K Walk to raise awareness about our country's need for a world-class treatment and recovery system for people with mental illnesses and money to maintain the free support and education services offered locally by the NAMI San Francisco Bay Area affiliates.
"Mental Illness is treatable. One family in five has a member suffering a mental illness. In any given year, five million adults and seven-and-a-half million children in America experience mental illness regardless of age, ethnic background and social status," said NAMI Grand Marshall Patti Duke, famed actress and author. "My own personal battle with mental illness has given me a unique perspective. There is a need for everyone to get involved from individuals to corporations to non-profits. I am taking time to help NAMI raise awareness and funds for it's free services so that no one is turned away," added Duke.
The national organization, NAMI has its roots in San Mateo County with the struggles of the Cadigan Family, award-winning filmmaker Katie Cadigan saw her parents frontline struggle to help their son battling schizophrenia. In "When Medicine Got It Wrong," Cadigan chronicles the persistence of her parents fight for medical services for her brother John Cadigan, an athlete and artist even though Mrs. Cadigan was accused by medical professionals for being the cause of her son's mental illness. "NAMI helped move us from the dark ages of psychiatry and we now have a stronger mental health care system, but there is a need for more access for treatment," said Cadigan.
"Dixon Financial Services honored to be able to support efforts by NAMI, one of the world's most valuable social resources, to fight stigma and provide greatly needed information and services. We know NAMI can bring about solutions. Even in the direst situations, NAMI helps ameliorate what might otherwise have been unmitigated agony," said Mike Dixon, CEO of Dixon Financial Services, a presenting sponsor of the San Francisco Bay Area NAMIWalk.
On Saturday, May 30, the NAMI "Campaign for the Mind" 5K Walk gets underway at 9:30 am with free registration at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. The walk begins at 11 a.m.
Organizers say walking with your family and friends is a great way to acknowledge that mental illness affects the whole family. Children under 18 are welcome with a guardian. The Bay Area joins over 60 communities nationwide that will walk this year to raise awareness and funds for free NAMI services that include: Advocacy, Peer Support Groups and Education, Family Support Groups and Education, Anti-Stigma Information and Provider Education among others.
Bay Area affiliates sponsoring the "Campaign for the Mind of America" are in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. For more information call 1-800-556-2401 or email, Laurie Williams, Walk Manager at laurie@namiwalksfbay.org.
ABOUT NAMI
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a non-profit organization with over 1,000 affiliates nationwide that provides education, support services and advocacy to improve the lives of everyone affected by mental illness.
NAMI was founded as a national organization in Wisconsin in 1979 and had its origins in NAMI San Mateo County in 1974 through Parents of Adult Schizophrenics when mothers were blamed for causing mental illness. It is a grassroots organization of families and individuals whose lives are affected by mental illness. Locally, visit www.namiwalksfbay.org or call 800-556-2401 for more information.
Jackie Wright
Wright Enterprises
"Yes W.E. Can" since 1997
Offices in the San Francisco
Bay Area and Dallas,Texas
www.wrightnow.biz
415 824.3990
415 525.0410 (cell)
The news headlines are full of people going over the edge due to economic and life stresses from suicides to Bonnie Sweeten who endangered herself, her daughter and others as she claimed Black men had kidnapped her and her child and placed them in a trunk. (Anyone remember Susan Smith, Union South Carolina, 1994?) NAMI--- the National Alliance on Mental Illness helps people overcome anxieties and fears and help them cope with mental illness.
Today's walk in Golden Gate Park is not exactly a "walk in the park." NAMI serves a serious role and the walk and money raised has a substantive impact on lives.
Your coverage is greatly appreciated. Please note the service of NAMI and its mental health experts expand beyond this annual event. Experts and stories are available to you year round.
Sincerely,
Jackie Wright
http://www.wrightnow.biz/articles_view.asp?columnid=2898&articleid=57455
News Release
For Immediate Release
May 30, 2009
Media Contact: Day of Event Site Contact:
Gina Snow, 415 312 6414 (cell)
Office: Jackie Wright,
415 525.0410 (cell)
or Laurie Williams, 800-556-2401
GRAND MARSHALL ACTRESS PATTI DUKE, AWARD WINNING
FILMMAKER KATIE CADIGAN WALK
AT ANNUAL 5K WALK FOR THE MIND OF AMERICA MAY 30
FILMMAKER KATIE CADIGAN WALK
AT ANNUAL 5K WALK FOR THE MIND OF AMERICA MAY 30
Change lives and make a difference at Golden Gate Park Speedway Meadow!
San Francisco-The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than $100 billion dollars each year in the United States. Unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives are the result of untreated mental illness. Because of those staggering consequences, Dixon Financial Services, John Muir Mt. Diablo Health Systems, Bregante Company , Telecare Corporation and AstraZeneca, Mills-Peninsula Health Service, van Löben Sels/RembeRock Foundation and other sponsors partnered with the National Alliance On Mental Illness, NAMI to take action and you can too!
Join the volunteers on Saturday May 30 at Golden Gate Speedway Meadow to walk for the "Campaign for the Mind" 5K Walk to raise awareness about our country's need for a world-class treatment and recovery system for people with mental illnesses and money to maintain the free support and education services offered locally by the NAMI San Francisco Bay Area affiliates.
"Mental Illness is treatable. One family in five has a member suffering a mental illness. In any given year, five million adults and seven-and-a-half million children in America experience mental illness regardless of age, ethnic background and social status," said NAMI Grand Marshall Patti Duke, famed actress and author. "My own personal battle with mental illness has given me a unique perspective. There is a need for everyone to get involved from individuals to corporations to non-profits. I am taking time to help NAMI raise awareness and funds for it's free services so that no one is turned away," added Duke.
The national organization, NAMI has its roots in San Mateo County with the struggles of the Cadigan Family, award-winning filmmaker Katie Cadigan saw her parents frontline struggle to help their son battling schizophrenia. In "When Medicine Got It Wrong," Cadigan chronicles the persistence of her parents fight for medical services for her brother John Cadigan, an athlete and artist even though Mrs. Cadigan was accused by medical professionals for being the cause of her son's mental illness. "NAMI helped move us from the dark ages of psychiatry and we now have a stronger mental health care system, but there is a need for more access for treatment," said Cadigan.
"Dixon Financial Services honored to be able to support efforts by NAMI, one of the world's most valuable social resources, to fight stigma and provide greatly needed information and services. We know NAMI can bring about solutions. Even in the direst situations, NAMI helps ameliorate what might otherwise have been unmitigated agony," said Mike Dixon, CEO of Dixon Financial Services, a presenting sponsor of the San Francisco Bay Area NAMIWalk.
On Saturday, May 30, the NAMI "Campaign for the Mind" 5K Walk gets underway at 9:30 am with free registration at Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park. The walk begins at 11 a.m.
Organizers say walking with your family and friends is a great way to acknowledge that mental illness affects the whole family. Children under 18 are welcome with a guardian. The Bay Area joins over 60 communities nationwide that will walk this year to raise awareness and funds for free NAMI services that include: Advocacy, Peer Support Groups and Education, Family Support Groups and Education, Anti-Stigma Information and Provider Education among others.
Bay Area affiliates sponsoring the "Campaign for the Mind of America" are in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. For more information call 1-800-556-2401 or email, Laurie Williams, Walk Manager at laurie@namiwalksfbay.org.
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ABOUT NAMI
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is a non-profit organization with over 1,000 affiliates nationwide that provides education, support services and advocacy to improve the lives of everyone affected by mental illness.
NAMI was founded as a national organization in Wisconsin in 1979 and had its origins in NAMI San Mateo County in 1974 through Parents of Adult Schizophrenics when mothers were blamed for causing mental illness. It is a grassroots organization of families and individuals whose lives are affected by mental illness. Locally, visit www.namiwalksfbay.org or call 800-556-2401 for more information.
Jackie Wright
Wright Enterprises
"Yes W.E. Can" since 1997
Offices in the San Francisco
Bay Area and Dallas,Texas
www.wrightnow.biz
415 824.3990
415 525.0410 (cell)
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