Montana Legislature
NAMI Montana's Overall Legislative Objectives
In January of 2016, NAMI Montana’s Board met and developed our Legislative Objectives for the 2017 Legislature. While we support other issues, these Legislative Objectives will be our rallying points. When you’re contacted by prospective legislators, please ask them to support these critical objectives.
1) Adequate funding for community mental health services (Mental Health Services Plan, Medicaid, Proposed Waivers, Peer Services, Crisis Service, etc.)
2) Eliminate barriers to effective co-occurring services for children’s mental health, adult mental health, substance abuse treatment and geriatric care.
3) Adequate funding for housing (including emergency, transitional, supported, and group homes)
4) Support psychiatric prescriber workforce development efforts, including a psychiatric residency program and psychiatric nurse fellowship program.
5) Improve the interface between the justice, corrections, and mental illness treatment system.
6) Improve employment opportunities for Montanans with mental illness and disabilities..
1) Adequate funding for community mental health services (Mental Health Services Plan, Medicaid, Proposed Waivers, Peer Services, Crisis Service, etc.)
2) Eliminate barriers to effective co-occurring services for children’s mental health, adult mental health, substance abuse treatment and geriatric care.
3) Adequate funding for housing (including emergency, transitional, supported, and group homes)
4) Support psychiatric prescriber workforce development efforts, including a psychiatric residency program and psychiatric nurse fellowship program.
5) Improve the interface between the justice, corrections, and mental illness treatment system.
6) Improve employment opportunities for Montanans with mental illness and disabilities..
Ways to Get Involved:
1. Contact your legislators and let them know that mental illness issues matter to you and why. This broad endorsement of mental illness issues can be really powerful. You can look up your legislators' contact information here. Be considerate with their time and keep your statement concise. Be polite and to the point. Please explain how these issues have personally impacted your life.
2. Contact NAMI Montana and ask to be signed up for our policy alerts. Our email info@namimt.org and our phone number is (406) 443-7871. Then make your own policy alert list of your friends, family, and colleagues that would also be interested in advocating for mental illness issues. Then send them any of our policy alerts that you think they might be interested in.
3. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper that discusses a specific issue or generally how important it is that the Montana Legislature support Montana's mental illness treatment system and Montanans who live with serious mental illness. Here are links to write letters to some of Montana's local papers.
1. Contact your legislators and let them know that mental illness issues matter to you and why. This broad endorsement of mental illness issues can be really powerful. You can look up your legislators' contact information here. Be considerate with their time and keep your statement concise. Be polite and to the point. Please explain how these issues have personally impacted your life.
2. Contact NAMI Montana and ask to be signed up for our policy alerts. Our email info@namimt.org and our phone number is (406) 443-7871. Then make your own policy alert list of your friends, family, and colleagues that would also be interested in advocating for mental illness issues. Then send them any of our policy alerts that you think they might be interested in.
3. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper that discusses a specific issue or generally how important it is that the Montana Legislature support Montana's mental illness treatment system and Montanans who live with serious mental illness. Here are links to write letters to some of Montana's local papers.
If you need help finding the contact information for your local paper, we can look it up for your. Just send us an email at info@namimt.org or call call at (406) 443-7871.
Thanks for standing up for Montanans who live with serious mental illness and their families. We are so much more powerful with your support.
Please give us a call if you have any other questions.
Thanks for standing up for Montanans who live with serious mental illness and their families. We are so much more powerful with your support.
Please give us a call if you have any other questions.
