NAMI Walks Lane County 2024

On Saturday, May 18th the annual NAMI Walks fundraising and awareness event was held at Island Park in Springfield, Oregon. Produced, coordinated and hosted by NAMI of Lane County. I was so happy to be a bronze level in kind sponsor, providing the event photography and image documentation. To view a full gallery of images from the event, you can click here. For a fun quick look at the event, scroll down this page. 

The fundraising is not over, so please Click Here to donate to NAMI Lane County. The last report I heard at the event was over $30,000 had been raised but more was needed to reach the goal. 

• "NAMI Lane County is an organization of families, friends and individuals whose lives have been affected by mental illness. Together, we advocate for better lives for those individuals who have a mental illness."
• "NAMI Lane County serves residents across our county with free mental health support, online groups, resources and education."

• The mission of NAMI Lane County is to improve the quality of life for individuals living with a mental health condition and their families, friends, and loved ones through support, education, and advocacy.

  Our Goals

  • To become a primary source of current mental illness information in Lane County, Oregon.

  • To establish regularly scheduled meetings where families and friends can come together to share experiences, discuss problems, find solutions, and extend mutual support.

  • To provide information and referral regarding mental health and related services for consumers–those that have a chronic and severe biological-based mental illness, their families, and friends.

  • To institute an active and aggressive program of mental health education including an attempt to counter all negative references, characterizations, and representations of mental illness or emotional disorders which act to reinforce or perpetuate existing stigma, stereotype, or discrimination against persons with mental illness and their families.

  • To survey and critically rate public and private mental health facilities, services, programs, individual providers, and their operating budgets.

  • To actively and aggressively participate in planning, budgeting, and decision-making sessions with agencies (public and private) that affect persons with mental illness.

  • To actively and aggressively evaluate legislation, institutional policies, and administrative agencies’ operating rules and regulations affecting persons with mental illness and their families.

  • To research and apply for grants and gifts from private and public souces for assistance in our goals. To aggressively enhance and prudently maintain our Foundation.

  • To promote the well-being of persons with mental illness.

Please visit the NAMI of Lane County Website and learn about this event, and all the good thinks they do for the community.