Our Mission Statement:
“NAMI Pierce County provides support, education, advocacy, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.”
We offer Support…
We offer Hope.
The families and members of NAMI Pierce County are here to help! We offer understanding to anyone concerned about mental illnesses and the treatment of mental illness.
Mental illnesses are brain disorders that are biologically based medical problems. Untreated, they can cause severe disturbances in thinking, feeling and relating. This results in substantially diminished capacity for dealing with the ordinary demands of life. Mental illness can affect persons of any age and occur in any family. They are not caused by bad parenting and not evidence of weakness of character.
MISSION
Our whole purpose is to support individuals and families whose lives have been touched by the challenges of mental illness. Why? Because we have been touched by these challenging conditions ourselves. We have walked – and are walking – in your shoes every day as individuals living with a mental illness or their family members. And things work better if we can take this journey together and support each other along the way.
OUR GOALS
Advocate at the county, state and national levels for non-discriminatory access to quality healthcare, housing , education and employment for people with mental illness.
Educate the public about mental illness.
Work to eliminate the stigma of mental illness.
Advocate for increased funding for research into the causes and treatment of mental illness.
OUR VISION
"Our vision improves the lives of individuals and their families affected by mental illness through a supportive, empowering community of people that care."
In our envisioned future mental illness will no longer thwart a person’s fulfillment of his or her potential. With early pinpoint diagnoses, interventions and targeted medications and services there is no pervasive disability. Ultimately, we envision a day when prevention or a cure is found.
