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Personal Narrative: Getting Help for Mental Illness in Collier County

Bonnie K.
NAMI Collier County
Bonnie K.

NAMI, or the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness since the late 1970s. It is one of the nation’s leading voices on mental health, and has hundreds of local affiliates, state organizations, and volunteers, including several here in southwest Florida. On today’s show we’re going to meet a woman named Bonnie K. who got help from NAMI Collier County for her mental illness. She went from being homeless, to having an apartment near the nonprofits Sarah Ann Center, and she now works part time there answering phones. We’re also joined by Whitney Strohmayr, she’s Director of Development for NAMI Collier County.

 

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.