Thankful to community for year-round support
Partnerships
Some of NAMI Ruston’s partners provided in-kind services and/or cash donations to the organization.
For over 34 years, a partnership has developed between NAMI Ruston and local media outlets, such as the Ruston Daily Leader newspaper staff. Public service announcements and radio talk shows have been broadcast on the Grambling State University radio station.
We thank you, community partners, who continue your own mission and outreach, and partner with us on shared outreach efforts. Volunteers of America/ Independence Meadows; Elisha Ministries; Serenity Springs Specialty Hospital; Reframing for Life; Grambling Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Epsilon Psi Omega Chapter; Community Bridges Group Homes; and Lincoln Parish Library are among our other partners.
Several churches are also serving as partners. If you would like to become a partner, then you may contact us.
Community Outreach
At Grambling State University, Schools of Social Work and Nursing, more than 40 faculty members, and undergraduate and graduate students joined NAMI Ruston.
Some of you, residents, requested guest speakers for your organizations’ meetings and sought recommendations for community mental health resources and information. We encourage you to continue to seek help, when needed.
You read and shared our NAMI Notes column, published biweekly in the Ruston Daily Leader newspaper. You also read and heeded our advertisements in the four Lincoln Life Magazines and the newspapers.
You visited our resource tables at the Lincoln Parish Library, in Ruston; Mount Zion Baptist Church, in Grambling; and the Grambling State University campus.
Financial Support NAMI Ruston thanks individuals, businesses, and organizations for your financial support throughout the years. Among those businesses and organizations are NAMI Louisiana, Hill’s Tire and Lube, True Care Dental, Century Next Bank, Origin Bank, Skip Russell State Farm, Mount Zion Baptist Church, Super 1 Foods, Walmart Supercenter, Exodus Family Farms, Community Enrichment Group, and NAACP Arcadia-Bienville 61AD-B.
Among individuals are Sandra Boston, Marietta Holloway, Theresea Younger; Dr. Gayberyl Shyne, Dr. Jacqueline Garrison, Charlotte Shyne, Joshua Reed, Carlshane Williams, and Dr. Jerrilene Washington.
Grants, Contracts, and Fundraising Currently, NAMI Ruston has grants, a state contract, and a major fundraising event. Louisiana Department of Health – Office of Behavioral Health, you awarded NAMI Ruston a $ 662,349.00 t h re e - ye a r contract, to develop and impl ement Postsecondary Education Peer Support P r o g r a m s. Three universities are participating in these programs: Grambling State University, Louisiana State University – Shreveport, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. This was the second year for the contract.
United Way of Northeast Louisiana, thank you for awarding a $5,500.00 one-year grant to us, which will offer Mental Health First Aid Classes to Grambling State University social work and nursing students and citizens in Lincoln and surrounding parishes. This was the second year for the grant.
Thank you, NAMI National, for awarding us a $5,000.00 one-year grant, to focus on Tardive Dyskinesia ( TD) Awareness and Education. Grambling State University social work and nursing students, and community leaders and residents are participating in this project. This was the fifth year for the grant.
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