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2008 Healing Arts Show: NAMI Wisconsin will kick-off Mental Illness Awareness Week with the second annual Healing Arts Show featuring the works of creative individuals with psychiatric disabilities. A reception for the Healing Arts Show will be held at the NAMI Wisconsin office, 4233 West Beltline Highway, on Friday, October 3rd from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. The NAMI Wisconsin Consumer Council will host the event assisted by NAMI Wisconsin staff.  Refreshments will be served.

MIAW around the state: 

NAMI Brown: Monday, Oct. 6: Canvas, film showing at Harmony Cafe - West Mason Street, Green Bay. 6:30 - 8:30 pm; Tuesday, Oct. 7: In Our Own Voice, UWGB, co-sponsored by UWGB; Wednesday, Oct. 8: Mental Health America Banquet & Awards, Midway Motel, Green Bay, 6:30 pm dinner, 7:30 pm speaker; Thurs. Oct. 8: National Depression Screening Day.

NAMI Dane: Sunday, October 5: NAMIWalk for the Mind of America, Olin Turville Park, 11:00 am registration, 1:00 NAMIWalk.

NAMI Door: Library display at Door County Library, Sturgeon Bay; forums in four churches, video on depression by Susan Gregg-Schroeder and a Power Point presentation on JAK's Place; bulletin inserts in all Lutheran churches from Lutheran Network on Mental Illness/Brain Disorders; Tues. Oct. 21: booth at the Community Health Fair, YMCA in Sturgeon Bay.

NAMI Fond du Lac: Thurs. Oct. 9: Canvas, film at Prairie Theater, UW Fond du Lac, 6:30 pm.

NAMI Fox Valley: Thurs. Oct. 4: NAMIWalks for the Mind of America, Memorial Park, Appleton, 8:00 am registration, 9:00 NAMIWalk.

NAMI Jefferson: Multiple displays throughout the area: libraries, clinics, Jefferson County Sheriff's Department; media outreach, local talk radio and newspaper article.

NAMI Kenosha: Wed. Oct. 8: Men Get Depression, film in conjunction with depression screenings; Fri. and Sat. Oct. 10 & 11: Annual Fundraiser, soliciting in front of retail stores, donation requests to individuals; interviews on WGTD radio and local TV station, Channel 14.

NAMI La Crosse: Sat. Oct. 11: Third Annual Iris Sale; display in the main library entrance; MIAW billboards throuhout the community in cooperation with Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center and Franciscan Mayo Medical Center.

NAMI Marinette/Menominee: Sun. Oct. 5 through the end of Oct.: Art exhibit, the work of consumer artist, Steve Cowles, Spies Library in Menominee, MI; Wed. Oct. 8: Reception opening exhibit at Spies Library, 6:30 pm.

NAMI Ozaukee: Displays in all six Ozaukee County libraries.

NAMI Racine: Sun, Oct. 5: Candlelight Vigil, Cristo Rey Parish; Tues. Oct. 7: In Our Own Voice presentation, NAMI Racine October program meeting; display at the Burlington Public Library.

NAMI Rock: Displays in all local libraries; letters to local newspapers and state legislators from family members and consumers; Mon, Oct. 13: Candlelight Vigil, Rock County monthly meeting.

NAMI Sheboygan: Sat. Oct. 4: Iris sale and information distribution, Piggly Wiggly, south side Sheboygan.

NAMI South Central: Media outreach, newspaper articles to local newspapers in Baraboo and Wisconsin Dells.

NAMI Waukesha: Thurs. Oct. 22: NAMI Waukesha Annual Awards Dinner, Thunder Bay Grille, N14 W24130, Tower Place, Pewaukee, 5:00 cocktails, 6:00 dinner, 7:00 awards presentation; $40 per person; inserts in Waukesha area churches.

NAMI Wishigan: Two page article in local newspaper; NAMI information on placemats in local restaurants.

NAMI is conducting a survey of individuals living with serious mental illnesses and their family members.

Help NAMI understand the real world experiences of individuals who need public mental health services.

NAMI is working with TeleSage to conduct an online survey to learn how well states are providing publicly funded mental health services.

The survey:

• is available online through September 30, 2008;
• takes only about 10-15 minutes to complete;
• is completely anonymous (NAMI will have no way of identifying you or your family member);
• was created in partnership with TeleSage, a leading independent survey technology company.

The results of the survey will be summarized and incorporated into the NAMI report, Grading the States 2009, which will be released in early 2009.

To participate in this survey, you must be 18 years or older and have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness or have a family member who has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness (for example, schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, etc.)

For more information and to participate go to: www.NAMI.org/telesage

Know someone who might be interested in participating?                                

Please let him/her know and help us distribute this survey far and wide.

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