EDUCATION

The following programs are offered by our affiliates across the state. Please contact your local affiliate for schedules of programs available in your area

Family-to-Family is a free, 12-week course for families, partners and friends of individuals with serious mental illness taught by more than 3,500 trained NAMI family members and caregivers of individuals living with mental illness. The course dwells on the emotional responses families have to the trauma of mental illness; many family members describe their experience in the program as life-changing.

NAMI Family Support Group Program is a free, monthly meeting of caregivers of individuals with a mental illness where family members can talk frankly about their challenges and help one another through their learned wisdom. These meetings are facilitated by trained NAMI members in affiliates across the country, and participants are encouraged to share actively in the work ofthe group.

NAMI Basics is a free, six-week, peer-directed education program developed specifically for parents and other family caregivers of children and adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a serious mental illness/serious emotional disturbance or who are experiencing symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed.

NAMI Connection is a free, weekly, 90-minute recovery support group for people living with mental illness where people learn from one another's experiences, share coping strategies and offer mutual encouragement and understanding. The groups provide an ongoing opportunity to discuss the Challenges of living with mental illness and the techniques for maintaining wellness. All groups are facilitated by peers living in recovery.

In Our Own Voice is a unique public education presentation that offers insight into the hope and recovery possible for people living with mental illness. Trained individuals living with mental illness lead a brief, yet comprehensive and interactive, presentation about mental illness.