Pastor Dan Morris accepting for Associate Pastor Ashlee Moseley Brown, Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church, Gulf Breeze, FL

Dr. Norman L. Baker, Project Ministries Worship Center, Pensacola, FL

Bishop Anthony W. Gilyard, Presiding Prelate, Southwestern Florida Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Church Of God In Christ, Tampa, FL

NAMI Faith Champion Award

The NAMI Faith Champion Award is given to a Pastor or Faith Leader who has made exceptional contributions to keeping mental health and faith as a priority in their ministry and an ambassador of the NAMI FaithNet program.

Along with this recognition, recipients have a responsibility to continue keeping mental health as part of the conversation within their faith communities as follows:

  • Recruit 1-2 faith leaders for our NAMI FaithNet Network.

  • Commit to hosting one of the following: a NAMI FaithNet Event, NAMI Class/Support Group; or any NAMI Presentation (e.g. Sharing Hope; In Our Own Voice) at least once per year.

  • Keep mental health as part of the conversation consistently from the pulpit, pews, and beyond the fore walls.

  • For more information, please contact Dr. Twanna House, Director of Programs, thouse@namiec.org.

2024 Recipients