{"id":42585,"date":"2019-02-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/alaska-mental-illness-org-receives-grant\/"},"modified":"2019-02-03T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:00:00","slug":"alaska-mental-illness-org-receives-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/alaska-mental-illness-org-receives-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska mental illness org receives grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Alliance on Mental Illness Alaska was awarded a Premera Social Impact Grant to connect Alaskans affected by mental illness with online support. NAMI&rsquo;s mental health and caregiver support groups will be offered online and in real time using a platform called Support Groups Central.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We appreciate this generous grant from the Premera Social Impact Program to help connect people from all parts of Alaska to vital peer-led support,&rdquo; said Sheila Harris, volunteer executive director for NAMI Alaska. &ldquo;This is a resource where geography is not a barrier and people can connect and discover that they are not alone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>NAMI Alaska&rsquo;s first online support group is focused on family members and caregivers affected by mental illness. Within the next few months, NAMI Alaska will add a support group for adults living with mental illness. Alaskans can access the groups at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supportgroupscentral.com\/NMAK\" target=\"_blank\">www.supportgroupscentral.com\/NMAK <\/a>or learn more by calling (907)272-0250.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Alliance on Mental Illness Alaska was awarded a Premera Social Impact Grant to connect Alaskans affected by mental illness with online support. NAMI&rsquo;s mental <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/health\/\">health<\/a> and caregiver support groups will be offered online and in real time using a platform called Support Groups Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}