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This is Mental Illness Awareness Week. It’s a great time to do something constructive to promote understanding of the problems that students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and their families experince. That National Alliance on Mental Illness, a leading proponent of providing help for individuals with EBD, is promoting this awareness week.

October 1-7, 2006

Since 1990, mental health advocates across the country have joined together during the first week of October to celebrate Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW).

What is Mental Illness Awareness Week?

Established in 1990 by Congress, the first week of October is designated as “Mental Illness Awareness Week” (MIAW) in recognition of NAMI’s efforts to raise mental illness awareness. “Bipolar Disorder Awareness Day” (BDAD) is held each year on the Thursday of MIAW to encourage further understanding and promote early intervention and treatment for this mental illness.

MIAW and BDAD are NAMI’s premiere public awareness and public education campaigns that link the organization nationally to the organization’s over 1100 local affiliates across the country.

Link to NAMI’s Web page about Mental Illness Awareness Week.