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NAMI Missouri Goals
NAMI Missouri shall accomplish its mission by:
- Coordinating
activities of NAMI Missouri Affiliates in Missouri and serving as a
state organization of NAMI.
- Serving as an
information collection and dissemination center within the State of
Missouri.
- Monitoring existing
mental health care facilities, staff, and programming for adequacy and accountability.
- Promoting new and
revision of existing legislation at state level.
- Fostering public
education about mental illness.
- Advocating for quality
institutional and non-institutional care and individualized treatment of
the mentally ill.
- Promoting community
support programs, including appropriate living arrangements linked with
supportive social, vocational rehabilitation and employment programs.
- Promoting research
(preventive, alternate modalities of treatment, rehabilitation and
cure).
- Improving private and
governmental funding for mental health facilities and services, care and
treatment, and residential and research programs.
- Forming a liaison with
national and other state mental illness organizations related with
health organizations.
- Delineating and
enforcing patient and family rights.
- Soliciting and
receiving funds in support of functions of the Organization.
- Encouraging and aiding
in the formation of Affiliates throughout the State of Missouri.
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