Presbyterian Mission Agency national alliance on mental illness Archives

Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy provides new mental health guide

Posted June 5th, 2024

One thing that the 20th-wealthiest county in the United States — a south-central Texas community — and a Boston neighborhood, Roxbury, which is riddled with violence and underemployment and is also the home of the R&B music group New Edition, have in common: both are touched by the epidemic of mental illness.

Minute for Mission: Mental Health Awareness Month May 2023

Posted April 25th, 2023

May is Mental Health Mental Awareness Month. This week provides a time for mental health advocates across the country to come together as one unified voice to decrease the stigma surrounding mental health and illness, to increase visibility of treatment options and to support those who deal with mental health concerns.

Delaware pastor with a social work background keynotes National Faith Day event for the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Posted November 29th, 2022

Chapters of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) recently held webinars and in-person gatherings in honor of National Faith Day. The Rev. Brooke A. Scott, pastor of the Church on Main, a worshiping community in Middletown, Delaware, spoke during “Pathways to Hope,” the NAMI Delaware gathering.

Loving the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength

Posted April 25th, 2022

More than 750 people were present online for the daylong Mental Health and Asian Americans Conference recently put on by the Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary.