Reflective Essay On Mental Health

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My experience at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) legislative training about mental health in St. Paul on the 25th of January 2018 was fantastic. This legislative training provides tons of information about how to advocate for changes to improve the lives of children and adults with mental illnesses and their families. This event provides me with the learning opportunities that are needed to make changes in the legislative actions towards people with mental illnesses. At this event, I learned about how to contact the legislators and the important things that I need to tell them about any bill or any mental condition that I wanted a change or approval.
Before attending this training, I thought contacting the legislative is a long process but this training simplified it, and we even practiced the
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How the event helped you to understand and meet the competency, focusing on population-based nursing care. Address two – three bullet points provide specific examples of how you met the bulleted points
This event helped me to understand and met the competency eight (Shows evidence of commitment to social justice, the greater good, and the public health principles) by teaching about the importance of treating everyone equally regardless of their state of health or giving priority to some case when making policy or changing policy. NAMI works for and against bills because sometimes legislators introduce a bill that NAMI believes will be harmful to people with mental illnesses and their families and works to defeat these bills. The following examples below were how I met some of the competency:
• Differentiates between social justice and market justice: I met this competency by understanding the mission of NAMI which is advocacy. Advocacy is ensuring social justice for all by actively involved the government in health service delivery without any interior motives attached for doing the work. This is what NAMI is doing and not making a profit out of their
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