Last Friday the 5th Matthew Shapiro, NAMI NYS's Public Communications Director, came to visit NAMI@Emma. He spoke to us about NAMI NYS's Legislative Day, which will be occurring on February the 23rd in Downtown Albany. My co-head Ella and I will be attending and advocating for a Mental Health in Schools Bill, which would make mental health education a mandatory aspect of school's health curriculum.We hope that the girls who are unable to attend the conference will get involved with a letter writing campaign or with advocating for these bills via social media. Mr. Shapiro also spoke to us about NAMI NYS's walk next year, which will be happening on September 24th. I'm very excited to use this walk as an opportunity to fundraise some money for NAMI! Some girls also asked some very good questions about the genetics about mental illness, which, based on their curiosity, I think would be a very interesting topic to delve into further. It was great to have the club feel more connected with the state agency, and I'm very excited to continue this closer collaboration.
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