NAMIWALKS Photos Now Online!

We've just posted over 250 photos from the May 2008 Greater Philadelphia NAMIWALKS. Thank you to all who participated in our walk!

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Looking for Stories!

NAMI has received the following message from a local reporter:

My name is Michael Vitez, and I ‘m a staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer. My assignment is to write about the uninsured and underinsured, to illustrate the problems with our health care system. I want to write powerful and compassionate human interest stories about people who can't get, or can't afford, the mental health services they need. I’m looking for stories of people who are being harmed, or denied, or cut off – who just can’t get or afford care and services they critically need.

I can promise you that I will be sensitive. I am a 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner and I specialize in human interest. I've recently written a long story for the Inquirer about Jordan Burnham, the Upper Merion high student who jumped out his ninth floor window in a suicide attempt: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/gallery/13908626.html

And following that, I wrote another story about John Gallagher and his coming to terms with his depression and suicide attempt. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/16889486.html

I you have stories to share, I'd love to hear them.

Michael Vitez

215-854-5639

mvitez@phillynews.com