{"id":285465,"date":"2026-09-14T02:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285465\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:50:13","slug":"community-unites-for-nami-erie-county-mental-health-walk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285465\/","title":{"rendered":"Community unites for NAMI Erie County mental health walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Community members came together today to raise awareness and help break the stigma surrounding mental health.<\/p>\n

NAMI Erie County held its annual NAMI Walks event on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

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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

Organizers said the event was about bringing the community together while raising money for nami\u2019s local programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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,\u201d said Abagile Spitalny, the marketing and development coordinator.<\/p>\n

Participants were also able to form teams and fundraise ahead of the walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members came together today to raise awareness and help break the stigma surrounding mental health. NAMI Erie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-285465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285465","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=285465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}