If you or someone you know suffers from a mental illness, the resources below can assist you in getting the help you need.
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NM spends $54 million a year on mental health |
New Mexico is home to approximately 370,000 individuals with some form of mental disorder. Of those, 71,000 adults have a serious mental illness, which includes individuals with schizophrenia, manic depression, major depression, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In addition, there are nearly 19,000 children and adolescents in New Mexico with a severe emotional disturbance.
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There are many facilities in the Albuquerque area to help those with mental illnesses. |
NAMI Albuquerque
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has a local office in Albuquerque. The organization stimulates the development of needed services for persons with mental illness, with an emphasis in Support, Education and Advocacy.
Relevancy, Inc - Relevancy, Inc. is an Albuquerque-based facility specializing in providing culturally sensitive approaches for treating mental health and substance abuse disorders with children and adults.
Albuquerque Family
Child Guidance Center
117 Montclaire Street SE
Albuquerque NM 87108
Phone: (505) 232-5239
Hotline: (505) 232-5239
Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos Inc
Behavioral Health Services Program
1043 Highway 313
Bernalillo NM 87004
Phone: (505) 867-3351
Presbyterian Medical Services
Rio Rancho Family Health Center
1424 Deborah Road SE Suite 101
Rio Rancho NM 87124
Phone: (505) 896-0928
Hotline: (888) 920-6333
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Congresswoman Heather Wilson attends a roundtable on mental health legislation in a garden created and maintained by patients in the behavioral health program at Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital |
Agora Crisis Center
1716 Las Lomas NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (866) HELP-1-NM, (505) 277-3013
Del Valle (Hogares Inc.)
3701 Condershire SW
Albuquerque, NM 87121
Phone: (505) 873-1431
Manzanita Counseling Center
University of New Mexico
MSC 03114
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: (505) 277-7311
The Children's Community Mental Health Clinic
Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center, 5100 Second St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87107
Phone: (505) 342-3754, (505) 761-6600 ext. 294
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Congresswoman Wilson's work on
mental health issues has continued
in Congress through her position on
the Health Subcommittee. |
Congresswoman Wilson began her work on mental health issues over a decade ago at the Children, Youth and Families Department. The Department not only had responsibility for all of the foster children in the state, it ran the mental health placement and treatment program for children.
Wilson hopes to erase the stigma attached to mental illness, and encourages sufferers and their friends and families to seek the help they need.
On Thursday, October 11, Wilson led a roundtable discussion with New Mexico mental health professionals and advocates to discuss legislation she’s pushing in Congress to help those with mental illnesses get the treatment they need.
“We owe it to the 370,000 New Mexicans suffering from mental illness to put mental health on the same footing with physical care. We want people to be healthy in body and spirit, and this bill is an important step to equalizing that care.”
Mental Health Links - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services provides a comprehensive list of online resources for nearly every mental illness.
AboutMentalHealth.org - This is an informative blog with factual information about many mental disorders.
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