About NAMI Delaware - Our Mission

Our Mission is - "to support, educate, and advocate until there is a cure for severe and persistent mental illness."

NAMI-DE is a statewide organization of families, mental health consumers, friends, and professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life for those affected by life-changing brain diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression. The organization achieves improvement by:

• Providing support and coping strategies to families dealing with serious mental illness;
• Promoting and delivering educational opportunities to improve the quality of life and to eliminate stigma;
• Advocating to assure adequate in-patient and community-based mental health services for all Delawareans afflicted with serious mental illness. This continuum of advocacy takes place at three interdependent levels:
  • Identifying and advocating for the needs of an individual,
  • Identifying and advocating at the grass roots level for specific issues broadly impacting the organization’s stakeholders,
  • Identifying and advocating for systemic improvements to the delivery of care and services.
  • Developing a variety of safe, affordable quality housing opportunities for persons with serious mental illness;
  • Supporting research to unlock the mysteries still surrounding these brain diseases.