Episode Notes

On DE-Stress 302, host Alena Duggan and The CAUSE Production Crew produced a Delaware-centric podcast all about mental health. Today’s episode of DE-Stress 302 is with Marie Wenzel. Marie is a trained social worker with nearly two decades of experience in the behavioral health and affordable housing sectors. She currently serves as a leader at NAMI Delaware, where she works to ensure that individuals and families impacted by mental illness have access to support, resources, and community. Marie’s professional journey has been shaped not just by her expertise, but by lived experience—as a family member of loved ones living with serious mental illness, she understands firsthand how overwhelming it can be to need help and not know where to turn.

This dual perspective—both personal and professional—fuels her passion for connecting people to the care they deserve. In today’s episode, Marie joins us to talk about Delaware’s 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, an essential tool in our state’s mental health response system. Through her work at NAMI Delaware, Marie is committed to making sure no one feels alone in a moment of crisis and that every Delawarean knows where to find help.