• Current Policy News and Alerts
  Stay informed and up-to-date on the latest critical policy issues affecting people with mental illness with NAMI.org and NAMI's E-News alerts.
  
• Policy Topics
  Find out more about the public policy issues affecting people with mental illnesses and take action to make your voice heard on these issues.
  
• Mental Illnesses: Treatment Saves Money & Makes Sense
  This general fact sheet shows that mental illness is a serious problem and that treatment can save lives and money. (PDF, opens in a new window)
  
• Grading the States: A Report on America's Health Care System for Serious Mental Illness
  NAMI has released the first state-by-state report on the nation's mental healthcare system in more than 15 years.  Learn more and see what grade your state received. 
  
• New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
  In December 2003, President Bush signed the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.  The new program went into effect in 2006.  A special prescription drug discount card became available in June 2004. 
  
• CIT Technical Assistance Resource Center
  Our mission is to supply mental health care, law enforcement, advocacy workers and consumers with the latest information about Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training.  The NAMI CIT Technical Resource Center will serve as a repository of information about CIT programs nationwide.
  
• Child and Adolescent Action Center
  Families know all too well that the system is failing children and adolescents with mental illnesses. NAMI created the Child & Adolescent Action Center in response to this crisis, to focus attention on systems reform and to help and support families.
  
• NAMI Policy Platform
  
• Policy Research Institute
  The NAMI Policy Research Institute (NPRI) drives national, state and local debates on reforms and investments in the nation's mental illness delivery and financing system.
  

• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
  NAMI works to make high-quality ACT teams available to all who need them and provides education about the effectiveness of the ACT model.
  

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