NAMI
What does NAMI stand for?
What is National Alliance on Mental Illness?
True or false: You can always tell when someone has a disability simply by looking at them?
PERIOD. works to eradicate period poverty and this social problem surrounding menstruation.
What is stigma?
Collecting unopened pads, tampons, liners, and other menstrual products most directly supports this cause.
What is menstrual equity/ending period poverty?
Standard health insurance plans in the U.S. are legally allowed to place lower lifetime financial limits on mental health care than on physical health care.
Myth
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) legally prohibits insurers from providing less favorable benefits for mental health than for medical/surgical care.
More than this fraction of U.S. adults experience mental illness each year.
What is 1 in 5?
A disability or medical condition that may not be immediately apparent to others is often called this.
What is an invisible disability?
PERIOD. describes itself as this kind of global nonprofit: not adult-led, but ______-fueled.
What is youth-fueled?
Providing seating, allowing breaks, using captions, and avoiding assumptions about what disability “looks like” are examples of this practice.
What is accessibility/accommodation?
Because the majority of disability accommodations involve expensive structural renovations or advanced software, they pose a heavy financial burden to employers.
What is myth?
Data from the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) shows that nearly 50% of workplace accommodations cost absolutely nothing to implement (such as flexible scheduling, modifying lighting, or altering dress codes). The remaining accommodations usually average a one-time cost of only $300
NAMI focuses its work in four major areas: advocacy, education, public awareness, and this.
What is support?
Invisible disabilities can affect much more than mobility; they can involve illness, chronic pain, neurological conditions, mental health conditions, and other limitations. Therefore, this common phrase — “You don’t look ______” — can be dismissive.
What is disabled/sick?
As of 2026, this is the total number of U.S. states, along with Washington, D.C., that have passed legislation mandating free menstrual products in public school restrooms.
What is 27?
Advocacy aimed at eliminating taxes on menstrual products targets what PERIOD. calls this discriminatory tax.
What is the tampon tax?
Less than 2% of all mammal species on Earth actually experience a menstrual cycle, making periods an evolutionary rarity largely unique to humans, certain primates, bats, and elephant shrews.
What is a fact?
Out of over 5,000 species of placental mammals, only about 84 species (roughly 1.6%) undergo overt menstruation. Every other mammal on Earth reabsorbs their uterine lining internally through an estrous cycle rather than bleeding meaning dogs, cats, cows, and horses do not get periods!
According to Half of all lifetime mental illness begins by this age.
What is 14?
Instead of assuming someone requesting an accommodation is exaggerating, the Invisible Disabilities Association emphasizes listening, supporting, and doing this.
What is believing them?
The inability to afford or access menstrual products is commonly known by this two-word term.
What is period poverty?
Making an event accessible by offering captions, flexible seating, breaks, and quiet spaces helps support people with these conditions, even when others cannot see them.
What are invisible disabilities?
Global health organizations consider a lack of basic handwashing stations with soap and water to be one of the largest systemic barriers to managing periods safely.
What is Myth
Public data from organizations like UNICEF highlights that over 2.3 billion people globally lack basic sanitation services, transforming a natural bodily function into a severe healthcare crisis due to an inability to clean reusable products safely
Someone experiencing a mental health, suicide, or substance-use crisis in the United States can call or text this three-digit number 24/7.
What is 988?
The Invisible Disabilities Association summarizes its mission with three actions: encourage, educate, and ______ people and organizations affected by illness, pain, and disability.
What is connect
According to PERIOD.'s 2025 State of the Period Study, nearly this fraction of students struggle to afford period products.
What is one in four?
Before planning a service project, asking a nonprofit what it actually needs helps prevent this common mistake: providing help based on assumptions rather than the community’s priorities.
What is performative philanthropy? or What is ineffective service?
NAMI's work is limited to helping people who personally have a diagnosed mental illness.
What is MYTH? NAMI also serves families, caregivers, educators and communities.