National Association of Mental Illness

National Association of Mental Illness



National Association of Mental Illness

NAMI of Greater Chicago's past files truly commences in September of 1976, when the Huxley Institute sponsored a lecture on schizophrenia.  A stranger from the north suburbs enquired about forming a gathering of parents afraid about mental disease and a sheet of paper was passed.  Twelve fascinated people signed that paper. 

About the corresponding time, two other parents in the north suburban environs alone resolved that a parent gathering agreement with mental illnesses was needed.  NASS held their first assembly in a worshippers building in December 1976.  The ...