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Staff Blog: Trauma Response Team Training

Staff Blog: Trauma Response Team Training

On Jan. 30, 2025, I graduated from the Neighborhood Resilience Project (NRP) Trauma Response Team training. It is both an honor and a privilege to be able to serve the community in this capacity. The NRP Trauma Response Team is deployed to fatal gunshot incidents throughout Allegheny County...

WESA-FM radio host Kevin Gavin interviews NAMI Keystone PA CEO Christine Michaels and Joni Schwager, Exec. Dir. of the Staunton Farm Foundation, on addressing mental health in the workplace

WESA-FM radio host Kevin Gavin interviews NAMI Keystone PA CEO Christine Michaels and Joni Schwager, Exec. Dir. of the Staunton Farm Foundation, on addressing mental health in the workplace

Depression costs the U.S. economy $210 billion a year in absenteeism, lost productivity and medical costs. Advocacy nonprofit NAMI Keystone PA recently launched CEOs Against Stigma, a program developed in Massachusetts, to help employers make improvements in the workplace to support...

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NAMI Keystone PA Partners with PRSA Pittsburgh for CEOs Against Stigma Campaign

NAMI Keystone PA Partners with PRSA Pittsburgh for CEOs Against Stigma Campaign

The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Pittsburgh chapter today announced its partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Keystone Pennsylvania to promote its CEOs Against Stigma campaign. PRSA will provide pro bono public relations support to the organization through...

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NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania Presents Advocacy Award to Staunton Farm Foundation Executive Director

NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania Presents Advocacy Award to  Staunton Farm Foundation Executive Director

NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania announced that Joni Schwager, Executive Director of the Staunton Farm Foundation, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2019 Dick Jevon Advocacy Award. The award, in honor of longtime mental health advocate Dick Jevon, recognizes community members who exhibit...

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Black History Month Mental Health Feature: Charma D. Dudley, PhD, FPPR

Black History Month Mental Health Feature: Charma D. Dudley, PhD, FPPR

February is Black History Month and many of us take time during this period to reflect on the achievements, as well as the struggles and pain, that black people have experienced in America. Although many things have changed in our society, African Americans and people of color still face racism...

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Nation's Leading Mental Health Research Agency Selects NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania as Official Outreach Partner for Pennsylvania

Nation's Leading Mental Health Research Agency Selects NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania as Official Outreach Partner for Pennsylvania

NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania has been selected as the Outreach Partner for the state of Pennsylvania by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the nation's leading mental health research agency. NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania joins a nationwide network of 55 mental health organizations...

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Pittsburgh Doctor Honored With Exemplary Psychiatrist Award From the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Pittsburgh Doctor Honored With Exemplary Psychiatrist Award From the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has awarded John Rozel, MD, MSL, with a 2018 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award. Dr. Rozel is the medical director of resolve Crisis Services, a program of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC. Dr. Rozel, who is board certified in general...

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Your Differences Are Your Superpowers

Your Differences Are Your Superpowers

My name is Nick and I was born and raised in Bucks County, PA and attended college in Boston. I was and am always afraid that my technically invisible mental health diagnoses will be visible to those I meet, and worry that I will be judged on things that people can't see and that I can't control...

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Mental Health Leaders, Advocates Convene at NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania's Annual Children's Conference

Mental Health Leaders, Advocates Convene at NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania's Annual Children's Conference

On Friday, June 8, 2018, NAMI Keystone Pennsylvania is holding its annual Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel, 777 Aten Road, Coraopolis, PA 15108. The event features Ross W. Greene, PhD, a clinical psychologist and professor who believes that...

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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Releases New Report on Childhood Trauma

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Releases New Report on Childhood Trauma

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released a new report, Helping Children and Youth Who Have Traumatic Experiences. The report shows that nearly half of the nation's children have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lifetime. Children and...

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