What I Learned from My Son’s Chronic Homelessness. In honor of Mental Illness Awareness Week, we today are are rerunning this popular guest blog post by Paul Gionfriddo, a former Connecticut State Representative and Mayor.
He served as a nonprofit CEO for more then 15 years and currently works as a consultant and writes a health and mental health policy blog, Our Health Policy Matters. This post originally ran Nov. 20, 2012. To learn more about Mental Illness Awareness Week, please visit the National Alliance on Mental website. Many people think that people are chronically homeless because they have serious mental illness or addictions. Mental_Illness.pdf. NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness - Mental Health Support, Education and Advocacy. Www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/Mental_Illness.pdf.