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?
Mental illness is uncommon in the United States.
What is MYTH? More than 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year.
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?
Period poverty can affect a student's ability to attend or participate in school.
What is FACT
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?
PERIOD.'s work centers around these three areas: advocacy, education, and ______.
What is service?
Advocacy aimed at eliminating taxes on menstrual products targets what PERIOD. calls this discriminatory tax.
What is the tampon tax?
If someone's disability varies from day to day, that means they are faking it.
What is MYTH?
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?
Menstrual equity involves more than simply donating pads and tampons; it also includes affordability, accessibility, safety, laws, and public policy.
What is FACT?
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.