National Alliance on Mental Illness, Block Island: NAMI BI

Mission Statement: NAMI Block Island is a nonprofit organization whose purposes are to advocate for mental health services being brought to the island, to enable education about mental illness and wellness in the community and to join others in supporting the families of persons with mental illness.

Officially, from the state of RI as a “Domestic Non-Profit Corporation” and from the federal government as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization: NAMI Block Island, Inc.

Board of Directors:

Will Young: President
Kristin Baumann: Vice President
Bill Penn: Treasurer
Elspeth Crawford: Secretary

Gloria Redlich, Pat Tengwall, Jill Seppa, Alison Warfel, Shannon Morgan, Corrie Heinz.

in attendance Tracy Fredericks (Medical Center Case manager, 207-229-6349.)

All of Block Island Community are welcome to attend meetings. Directors excepting Elspeth Crawford are on-island residents. Contact on this site goes directly to her. All directors are willing to be contacted, if you meet them in the community, and can be made through the BI phone directory.