Press Releases
12/9/2022 - National Mental Health Coalition Decries NYC Mayor’s Plan to Lock UpHomeless People Who Have Psychiatric Disabilities
10/4/2021 - National Mental Health Peer Advocacy Organization Applauds the Creation of SAMHSA's New Office of Recovery
1/4/2021 - Mental Health Advocacy Coalition Urges Appointment of Paolo del Vecchio to Top Federal Behavioral Health Post
6/20/2020 - National Coalition of Mental Health Activists Calls for Ending Police Role in Mental Health Crises
8/7/2019 - President Trump’s Statement Blaming Gun Violence on People with Mental Health Conditions Is Outrageous, Says National Organization of Mental Health Advocates with “Lived Experience"
7/30/2018 - People with Psychiatric Histories Host “People’s Alternatives Conference” in DC 7/30 - 8/3/18
6/10/2016 - Advocates Reject Revised “Murphy Bill” as Still Harmful to Individuals with Mental Health Conditions
4/25/2016 - NCMHR Appoints Valerie L. Marsh, MSW as Executive Director
6/9/2015 - Mental Health Advocates Oppose Rep. Tim Murphy's Bill for Promoting Forced "Treatment" over More Effective and Less Expensive Voluntary Care
2/11/2015 - GAO Report on Health and Human Services Leadership Misleading, Incomplete (PDF, 120KB, 1 page)
1/27/2014 - National Organization of People with Psychiatric Diagnoses Mourns Isla Vista Tragedy (PDF ,82K, 1 page)
3/28/2014 - Mental Health Advocates Decry Forced Treatment Provision in “Doc Fix” Bill
12/12/2013 - Mental Health Advocates Blast Rep. Tim Murphy’s Bill as a Costly Step Backward, to the Days When a Mental Illness Diagnosis Was a Life Sentence
8/22/2013 - National Mental Health Coalition Calls “Today Show” Electroshock Segment One-Sided
1/17/2013 - National Coalition Representing Individuals with Psychiatric Diagnoses Lauds President Obama’s Recommendations to Contain Gun Violence
12/21/2012 - National Empowerment Center (NEC) Calls for Peer-delivered Community Services Instead of More Forced Treatment
11/6/2012 - Will Hall, Internationally Known Mental Diversity Consultant and Syndicated Radio Host, Is Honored with 2012 Judi Chamberlin Joy in Advocacy Award
5/3/2012 - Coalition of Individuals with Psychiatric Labels Supports Protestors’ Efforts to “Occupy” the American Psychiatric Association Convention
1/26/2012 - National Mental Health Coalition Calls "Dr. Oz" Electroshock Show One-Sided
4/28/2011 - National Coalition for Mental Health Recovery Releases Guidelines for Promoting Recovery Through Choice and Alternatives
1/10/2011 - National
Coalition of Individuals with Mental Health Conditions Calls for Reasonable
Response to Arizona Tragedy [Also
available as a PDF (46KB, 2 pages)]
1/21/2010 -
Death of Judi Chamberlin, Pioneer in Social Justice
Movement, Casts Spotlight on Struggle for Rights of People with Psychiatric
Disabilities 10/6/2009 - Consumer/Survivor
Coalition Calls for Voluntary, Peer-run Alternatives to Force and Coercion in
Mental Health Treatment
8/26/2009 - National Coalition of People with
Psychiatric Histories Mourns the Death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
12/2/2008 - Tragedies Underscore Crisis in U.S. Public
Mental Health System: National Advocacy Organization Demands Reforms
7/17/2008 - “Mummies of the Insane” Galvanizes
National Coalition of People with Psychiatric Histories
5/3/2007 - Countering Discrimination and Stigma
by Promoting Mental Health Recovery and Resiliency 4/20/2007 -
National Coalition of People with Psychiatric Histories
Responds to Virginia Tech Tragedy 9/6/2006 -
Mental Health Consumer/Survivors Create National Coalition | 