
Mental Health Through the Lives of Lived Experience
July 14, 2026
What Will You Learn?
- Key data highlighting mental health service gaps throughout Iowa.
- How personal experiences can reveal larger systemic challenges in mental health support.
- The importance of postvention services for families and communities affected by suicide and homicide.
- How the Compassion Team Coalition was created through the National Alliance on Mental Illness platform to address these needs.
- Ways communities, organizations, and individuals can build partnerships to provide meaningful support, education, and awareness for those affected by tragedy.
Duration: 1 Hour, 3 Minutes, & 53 Seconds
CE Credit: 1.0
Presented by: Roxanne Petersen, President & CEO of NAMI Central Iowa



