Mental illness is biologically based.
Mental illness can be treated.
Lives can be restored.

2008 Events

Indiana's 5K Walk to Provide Housing and Fight Homelessness

Sunday, April 20^th - 2:00 PM
Registration begins at noon
or you can print, fill out, mail or bring in
the registration form to the office.

Howarth Center
(Corner of 18^th and Union Street)

Why will you walk?

Did you know that more than half of persons who are homeless have a serious mental illness?

The National Alliance on Mental Illness-West Central Indiana (NAMI-WCI) helps the homeless through:

• Training police officers to respond to homeless persons who are mentally ill.
  
  
• Helping family members understand and support their loved one who is mentally ill.
  
  
• Its emergency helpline that finds resources for families to support member who is in crisis.

Join the NAMI-WCI Walk team TODAY!

Please print and fill out the registration form to mail it to our office, call the office, or log on to www.homewardboundindiana.org. Click on Walk Locations, go to West Central Indiana, then browse teams.

Click on Walk for NAMI-WCI and follow the instructions or send your donations to the NAMI-WCI office directly:

NAMI-West Central Indiana
Homeward Bound
PO Box 6232
Lafayette, IN 47903

Call 765.423.6939 for more information.

NAMI-WCI's Annual Meeting and Dinner

Thanks to you, another successful Annual Meeting & Dinner hosted by NAMI-WCI!

Thursday, January 17, 2008*

6:00 pm Doors open
6:30 pm Dinner $15.00/person with Prime Rib entrée

Westminster Village
2741 N. Salisbury Street
West Lafayette, IN

Entertainment provided by the Purdue Musical Organization

Annual Meeting Agenda

• Annual Report
• Recognition of staff and volunteers
• Nominations and election of new Board candidates
• The year ahead

Dinner seating is limited, early reservations are recommended.
Please contact us by noon on January 11, 2008.

NAMI-West Central Indiana
P. O. Box 6232
Lafayette, IN 47903
T: 765.423.6939
Email: Kathy Keiser kkeiser@nami-wci.org

*Snow date will be Tuesday, January 22nd, tune in to WLFI-TV18 for postponement due to inclement weather.

2007 Events

Bulbs for a Brighter Future: NAMI-WCI 2007 Flower Bulb Sale

Bulb Descriptions (pdf) * Bulb Order Form (pdf) due by 9/28/2007
Contact Person Responsible for Pick-Up Saturday, October 27th

Bringing beauty to your garden also brightens lives of families and their loved ones with mental illness supported by NAMI-WCI. Your purchase of our bulbs helps our programs to support these local families. Planting bulbs this fall will bring you joy each spring with beautiful flowers, a reminder of those futures you are brightening as well.

Be a Garden Angel! If you would like to be a Garden Angel, and help brighten the spring gardens at local Wabash Valley facilities, please fill out a separate line and check the box on the order form. NAMI-WCI is a 501(c)3 organization and the entire donated amount is deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

In addition, as our way of saying Thank You for your order of $50.00 or more, we will include 15 FREE Crocus Bulbs From the Grand Collection: 3 each of Blue Pearl, Cream Beauty, Goldilocks, Purity and Ruby Giant.

Please submit your orders by September 28th: you can phone in your orders by calling the NAMI-WCI office at (765) 423-6939 or mail in your order & check to the following address:

NAMI-WCI 2007 Bulb Order
PO Box 6232
Lafayette, IN 47903

Bulb Descriptions (pdf) * Bulb Order From (pdf)
Orders Due by September 28th;
Contact Person Responsible for Pick-Up Saturday, October 27th

"Restoring Lives" — Our Third Annual Fundraising Banquet

Our Third Annual Fundraising Banquet will be held on November 1^st, 2007 at the Best Western Hotel on SR 26 E. For more information, email Kathy at the office at kkeiser@nami-wci.org or call 765.423.6939

NAMI Walks

NAMI affiliates participating in the fall 2007 NAMIWALKS. Read More

More on: "Canvas" — A Joseph Greco Film

A ten-year-old boy and his father struggle with normalcy, hope, respect, and understanding amidst turmoil created by the mother's paranoia and delusions, and hospitalization. Building and then sailing their own special boat stands as a metaphor as well as a place for the father-son's relationship to develop and strengthen during this troubled time.

The film and cast, starring Joe Pantoliano, Marcia Gay Harden, and introducing Devon Gearhart, have won several awards, amongst them: 'An Official Hamptons International Film Spotlight Film Selection,' two 'Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival,' Awards, the '2007 Sarasota Film Festival' Audience Award for Best Narrative, & our very own NAMI National awarded the Outstanding Media Award.

Contact Oprah Winfrey about the film: learn more.

To find out more about the film, please visit CanvasTheFilm.com.

Help "Canvas": Write Oprah!

From NAMI National: Write Oprah! Please make sure to contact the Oprah Winfrey Show and ask that the director and cast of the movie CANVAS be interviewed on her show before it is released in October 2007. Oprah can help educate millions of people about the real-life experiences of families who battle schizophrenia by promoting the movie. Emphasize the powerful, authentic performances by Marcia Gay Harden, Joe Pantoliano and 10-year-old Devon Gearhart - and that the movie was inspired by the director's personal family story.

Ask Oprah to visit www.CanvasTheFilm.com to watch the preview. We regret that an email address previously provided for the show was no longer active. Instead, email messages can be sent through Oprah's Web site. However, personal notes sent by regular mail have the greatest impact. Do both! For stigma-busting, it could be the most important letter you write all year.

Ms. Oprah Winfrey
The Oprah Winfrey Show - Harpo Productions
110 North Carpenter Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607-2104

See NAMI Media Award press release.

NAMI C.A.R.E. is now called NAMI Connection

The NAMI Connection Support Group meets in the West Lounge on the 1^st floor of the St. Elizabeth's School of Nursing Building. See the Support Groups webpage for more information.

2006 Events

NAMI-WCI Annual Banquet

On November 2, 2006, the NAMI-WCI Annual Banquet was held at the Best Western Hotel on State Road 26. During the ceremonies, two awards were presented by NAMI-WCI for significant contributions in the service of the seriously mentally ill and their families: the Cecilia Weber Advocacy Award and the Chico Hatke - Crisis Intervention Officer of the Year Award. There were two recipients for the Weber Award this year: Judge Donald C. Johnson and Patsy Hoyer. Officer T. Perry Amos was presented with the Chico Hatke Award.

2005 Events

Gala Banquet Launches Campaign to Eliminate the Stigma of Mental Illness

On November 3, 2005, 170 community members and friends of NAMI-WCI gathered in the Regency Ballroom of the Best Western Hotel in Lafayette to launch an 18 month campaign to eliminate the destructive myths that surround mental illness. The event, hosted by Mike Piggott, featured a performance by the Mental Health Players, personal stories of illness and recovery by consumers and colloquy describing the "building blocks" of the Campaign. Learn More