# Sue Abderholden

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Hospital Matters: Minnesota made some progress on mental health care this spring

The Minnesota Legislature pledged $75 million to upgrading mental health care this year, most of it going to replacing and expanding a major inpatient care facility at the Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center. In this episode, we talk to Sue Abderholden, the executive director of the National Alli…

How Medicaid changes will affect health care in Minnesota

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed into law the major domestic policy bill that cuts about $1 trillion dollars from federal Medicaid spending over the next ten years. The changes to Medicaid are estimated to result in nearly 10 million more people going without health insurance by 2…

From Shoestring to Powerhouse: Moving Mental Health Care Forward

Send us Fan Mail When Sue Abderholden took the reins at the Minnesota chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in 2001, the organization ran on duct tape, a few staff, and big hopes. Two decades later, NAMI MN has become a statewide leader and national model—transforming how mental…

Sue Abderholden retires after two decades shaping mental health advocacy in Minnesota

Sue Abderholden is retiring after more than two decades leading NAMI Minnesota, the state's chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness. As one of the state’s most influential voices for mental health, she’s helped raise awareness, change laws and expand access to care. MPR News guest hos…

Serving those in the mental illness fight for 24 years!

Recent cuts for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association are putting many that struggle with mental illness and substance abuse at risk and we talked to someone who after 24 years is retiring, Sue Abderholden with the National Alliance on Mental Illness has served the Twin Cities …

Blindness and blind spots.

“Jovencito, it’s going to be lonely being different and yet strong in this world,” James Francisco Bonilla’s grandmother told him when he was ten. Born with congenital cataracts, James had limited vision in his right eye and none in his left. At age nine, after a classmate hurled a horseshoe at his…

Ep 23: Building a Mental Health System That Works with Sue Abderholden

EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode of Mental Health Evolution, host Rachel Harrison welcomes Sue Abderholden, a national leader with over 40 years of experience in disability advocacy, mental health policy, and nonprofit leadership. Sue served as Executive Director of NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance…

Ep 55: Be the One Who Does It

This week Rachel steps away from the interview format to do something she has been wanting to do for a while — take stock of everything the podcast has surfaced over the last year and pull it into a single, honest conversation about what is actually happening in mental health right now, and what cl…

Housing First or Treatment First: Does Minnesota Have to Choose?

In this interview, I talk with Robbie Sequeira, a Stateline reporter based in Chicago, about his piece that ran in the Minnesota Reformer on September 17: “Trump admin aims to shift homelessness grants toward addiction treatment, enforcement.” We also spend some time discussing Chicago’s seven-pill…