NAMI has more than 1,200 state organizations and local affiliates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Canada. This material was made possible, in part, by an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company. Each word in the title of NAMI s initiative, Omnibus Mental Illness Recovery Act, has significance. Omnibus refers to a comprehensive systems approach. Mental Illness targets persons with diagnosable illness and disability.
Recovery offers the prospect that illness and disability can be overcome.
Act means that NAMI is seeking governmental policy responses. 3 Health Care Reform for Americans with Severe Mental Illnesses. 4 Outcasts on Main Street. 5 Edgar, E, et al. The Housing Crisis for People with Disabilities.