{"id":285365,"date":"2026-09-13T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285365\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T22:48:08","slug":"community-unites-for-nami-erie-county-mental-health-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285365\/","title":{"rendered":"Community unites for NAMI Erie County mental health walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Community members came together today to raise awareness and help break the stigma surrounding mental health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NAMI Erie County held its annual NAMI Walks event on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:LECOM holds white coat ceremonies for over 200 students;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/lecom-holds-white-coat-ceremonies-for-over-200-students\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0LECOM holds white coat ceremonies for over 200 students\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Participants walked to show support for those affected by mental health challenges, while also enjoying family activities, food trucks and a kids zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers said the event was about bringing the community together while raising money for nami&#8217;s local programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It just feels really good that they all came here with NAMi in mind and that everyone cares about mental health. Seeing the number of people show up for the topic of mental health, lower suicide prevention is just the coolest thing ever,&#8221; said Abagile Spitalny, the marketing and development coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Participants were also able to form teams and fundraise ahead of the walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members came together today to raise awareness and help break the stigma surrounding mental health. NAMI Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38322,136,138,137,47,86361],"class_list":["post-285365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-community-members","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mental-health","tag-nami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}