Make your Voice Heard
May 4, 2021, 9 AM
Each year, NAMI California hosts advocacy days to provide a platform for passionate advocates to engage with lawmakers on important policies aimed at improving the quality of life for people with mental illness.
Save the date for NAMI California’s Capitol Advocacy Day! We’re lining up legislators to visit for our annual advocacy day on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
Saturday, May 22 | 9 AM – 3 PM
Join us to fight stigma, drive awareness, and raise funds for mental health!
On Saturday, May 22, you are invited to walk, run, bike, meet, or Zoom individually or with a team for NAMIWalks Your Way. NAMIWalks will be a virtual experience, united with NAMIWalks across the country. This year, participants get to use their creativity, with the main rule that we continue to advance towards our fundraising goal by leaps and bounds.
We encourage you to join the NAMI South Bay community for NAMIWalks as an individual, with your own group, or as part of an existing group (options below).
South Bay Cares | Team Captain: Lee Ann Farmer
NAMI South Bay Walkers | Team Captain: Paul Stansbury
NAMI Espanol Baby Blues 16 | Team Captain: Modesta Pulido
Japanese Group | Team Captain: Naoki Nagahata
Maddie’s Support | Team Captain: Madelynn Sanchez
Erika’s Lighthouse Palos Verdes | Team Captain: Marielle Sandler
Eve’s Family-to-Family and Friends | Team Captain: Eve Somers
Del Amo Hospital | Team Captain: Howard Mationg
Chester Hope | Team Captain: Anna London
Looking for others ways to participate? Join us for one of these local fundraisers!
Diana’s Mexican Restaurant
Monday, April 26 | 6 – 8 PM
Location: 300 E. Sepulveda Blvd, Carson, CA 90745
Donation: $25
NAMI South Bay’s Español Baby Blue 16 Team invites you and your family to the Taco Night Fun and Fundraiser to support NAMIWalks Your Way. There will be music, prizes, and of course, delicious Mexican food! See the flyer for more details.
Bettolino Kitchen
Every Tuesday in May
Location: 211 Palos Verdes Blvd, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
In honor of Mental Health Month, Bettolino Kitchen will be supporting NAMIWalks Your Way 2021 as part of their Giving Tuesday campaign. Eat at Bettolino Kitchen on any Tuesday in May, tell them you are supporting NAMI South Bay and the NAMIWalks event, and they will commit a portion of the proceeds from your order to the walk. This event organized by Del Amo Hospital Walk Team- Howard Mationg, Team Captain.
21st Century Interventions for Mental Illness:
rTMS, MeRT and IV Ketamine
Presenter: Dr. Martha B. Koo, M.D.
Monday, April 19 | 7:30 PM (virtual meeting)
Dr. Koo is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst double Board Certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. A pioneer in the development and application of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Dr. Koo is the founder and CEO of Neuro Wellness Spa, where she offers TMS, Magnetic E-Resonance therapy, IV ketamine, IV nutrition, and photobiomodulation as novel interventions for treatment-resistant mental illness. She is also the Medical Director at Clear Recovery Center and serves on the Board of Directors of the Clinical TMS Society and the Beach Cities Health District.
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