Mental Illness Awareness Week Activities Around Wisconsin
Sponsored by NAMI Wisconsin affiliates (
www.namiwisconsin.org)
List is arranged alphabetically by NAMI affiliate name
NAMI Brown County:
•Monday, October 6:
Canvas, film showing at Harmony Café
West Mason Street, Green Bay 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
•Tuesday, October 7: In Our Own Voice
UWBG co-sponsored by UWGB
•Wednesday, October 8: Mental Health America Banquet & Awards
Midway Motel, Green Bay 6:30 p.m. – dinner 7:30 p.m. – speaker
•Thursday, October 8: National Depression Screening Day
NAMI Dane County:
•Sunday, October 5: NAMIWalk for the Mind of America
Olin Turville Park, Madison, WI
11:00 a.m. – registration 1:00 p.m. – NAMIWalk
NAMI Door County:
•Library Display Case at Door County Library
Sturgeon Bay - Donation of a book on mental illness to all seven branches of the library
•Forums in four churches: Video on depression by Susan Gregg-Schroeder and a power point presentation on JAK’s Place
•Bulletin inserts sent to all Lutheran Churches in area
From Lutheran Network on Mental Illness/Brain Disorders
•Tuesday, October 21: Booth at the Community Health Fair
YMCA in Sturgeon Bay
NAMI Fond du Lac:
•Thursday, October 9:
Canvas, film showing at Prairie Theater
UW Fond du Lac 6:30 p.m.
NAMI Fox Valley:
•Saturday, October 4: NAMIWalks for the Mind of America
Memorial Park, Appleton 8:00 a.m. – registration 9:00 a.m. – NAMIWalk.
NAMI Jefferson County:
•Multiple displays throughout the area: libraries, clinics, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department
•Media outreach – local talk radio program and newspaper article
NAMI Kenosha:

•Wednesday, October 8: Viewing of
Men Get Depression in conjunction with depression screenings 9:30 a.m.
•Friday & Saturday, October 10 & 11: Annual Fundraiser
Soliciting in front of retail stores throughout the county and donation requests to individuals
•Interviews on WGTD radio and local TV station Channel 14
NAMI La Crosse:
•Saturday, October 11: Third Annual Iris Sale
•Display in the Main Library entrance
•MIAW billboards through the community In cooperation with Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center and Franciscan Mayo Medical Center
NAMI Ozaukee:
•Displays in all six Ozaukee County Libraries
NAMI Racine:
•Sunday, October 5: Candlelight Vigil
Cristo Rey Parish
•Tuesday, October 7: In Our Own Voice presentation
NAMI Racine October program meeting
•Display at the Burlington Public Library
Donation of books and DVDs to the library
NAMI Rock County:
•Displays in all local libraries
•Letters to local newspapers and state and federal legislators from family members and consumers
•Monday, October 13: Candlelight Vigil
Rock County monthly meeting
NAMI Sheboygan County:
•Saturday, October 4: Iris sale and information distribution
Piggly Wiggly, south side Sheboygan
NAMI South Central:
•Media Outreach – newspaper articles to local newspapers in Wisconsin Dells and Baraboo
NAMI Waukesha County:
•Thursday, October 22: NAMI Waukesha Annual Awards Dinner
Thunder Bay Grille, N14 W24130 Tower Place, Pewaukee Cocktails - 5 p.m.
Dinner - 6 p.m. Awards Presentation - 7 p.m.
$40 per person
•Inserts in Waukesha area church bulletins
NAMI Wishigan:
•Two page article in local newspaper
•NAMI information on placemats in local restaurants