ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL
AMI of Oakland County | Advocacy Organization, Mental Illnesses, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic, Anxiety Disorders, Mentally Ill
Alliance for the Mentally Ill – Oakland CountyThe Alliance for the Mentally Ill (AMI) is a not-for-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for persons with serious mental illness through support, education, advocacy, and promotion of research. We are an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness – Michigan (NAMI-MI).
Mission Statement
Alliance for The Mentally Ill of Oakland County (AMI) is dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life for persons, families and others, who are affected by mental illness, including children with serious emotional disorders, through support, education, advocacy and research.
AMI will accomplish this MISSION through the following objectives:
- Providing for family support and education
- Fostering public education concerning the causes and treatment of mental illness.
- Monitoring existing health care facilities, staff, and programming for quality institutional and non-institutional care, adequacy, and accountability.
- Promotion of community support programs, including appropriate living arrangements linked with supportive social, vocational rehabilitation, and employment programs.
- Promotion of new and remedial legislation.
- Support and advocate research into the causes, alternative modalities of treatment, and elimination of stigma toward mental illness.
- Delineation and enforcement of patient and family rights.