This is a 90-minute seminar that informs people who have loved ones with a mental health condition how to best support them. It’s also an opportunity to meet other people in similar situations and gain community support.
Register Today!
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN …
The seminar is led by trained people with lived experience of supporting a family member with a mental health condition. They will walk you through the following topics.
– Understanding diagnoses, treatment and recovery
– Effective communication strategies
– The importance of self-care
– Crisis preparation strategies
– NAMI and community resources
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES …
Once you’ve attended our seminar, we’ll send you Family & Friends companion eBook at no charge. It provides important information about mental health conditions including: conditions and diagnoses, treatment and recovery, crisis planning, resources and more.
This is a 90-minute seminar that informs people who have loved ones with a mental health condition how to best support them. It’s also an opportunity to meet other people in similar situations and gain community support.
Register Through NAMI.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN …
The seminar is led by trained people with lived experience of supporting a family member with a mental health condition. They will walk you through the following topics.
– Understanding diagnoses, treatment and recovery
– Effective communication strategies
– The importance of self-care
– Crisis preparation strategies
– NAMI and community resources
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES …
Once you’ve attended our seminar, we’ll send you Family & Friends companion eBook at no charge. It provides important information about mental health conditions including: conditions and diagnoses, treatment and recovery, crisis planning, resources and more.
LO QUE APRENDERÁS:
Este programa gratuito de 90 minutos es impartido por un equipo de educadores familiares certificados de NAMI que comprenden su situación porque ellos también han pasado por algo similar.
Su objetivo es ofrecer habilidades prácticas e información para abordar sus inquietudes inmediatas.
Comprender los diagnósticos de salud mental tratamiento y recuperación
- Estrategias de comunicación efectivas
- La importancia del autocuidado
- Estrategias de preparación para crisis
- NAMI y recursos comunitarios
Centro Comunitario de Libertad Occidental. Se servirá la cena 5:30 a 6:00 p.m. Presentación 6-7:30 p.m. Se proporcionará cuidado de niños.
Registro
¿Quién debe asistir: los miembros de la familia y los cuidadores de una persona que vive con una condición de salud mental que es mayor de 18 años.
Programa de Educación Familia a Familia del NAMI
Registro
es un programa desarrollado a nivel nacional para aquellos que apoyan a un adulto que vive con depresión mayor, trastorno bipolar, esquizofrenia, trastorno obsesivo compulsivo, trastorno de pánico, trastorno de estrés postraumático y trastorno límite de la personalidad.
El curso es enseñado por miembros de la familia entrenados que tienen muchas de las mismas experiencias que ahora puede estar pasando. Los participantes del curso describen este programa como un cambio de vida. Únase a las miles de familias que han obtenido información, conocimiento, comprensión y empoderamiento al asistir a este programa de firma NAMI.
Este curso es gratuito para usted.
FAMILIA A FAMILIA los temas del curso incluyen:
- Respuesta familiar al trauma
- Diagnóstico y tratamiento de períodos críticos
- [Condiciones y trastornos adictivos cerebrales] concomitantes
- La biología del cerebro; descubrimientos científicos emergentes
- Taller de resolución de problemas
- Revisión de medicamentos
- Comprender la experiencia interna de tener una condición de salud mental
- Taller de técnicas de comunicación
- Autocuidado, Testimonio de grupo relativo
- Rehabilitación; servicios disponibles
Register Today.
Virtual. After registering, You will receive a system email response with the following information: Zoom Online Meeting Login information. This video meeting is not recorded to ensure your privacy and safety.
NAMI Support Group Guidelines – our group guidelines provide confidentiality and respect for one another. We use a nationally-developed model to guide our conversation. Our facilitators are trained NAMI education volunteers who all have lived experience supporting a youth living with a mental illness. This a specialized NAMI Family Support Group for caregivers of youth living with or exhibiting symptoms of a mental health condition. Parents, foster parents, grandparents and other direct caregivers are welcome to attend. As always, participation is confidential and there is no cost to attend.
Thanks to the Eastern Iowa Mental Health Region for supporting this program. The support group is offered in cooperation with the many agencies working to improve children’s mental health. All caregivers are welcome.
Register Today.
Virtual. After registering, You will receive a system email response with the following information: Zoom Online Meeting Login information. This video meeting is not recorded to ensure your privacy and safety.
NAMI Support Group Guidelines – our group guidelines provide confidentiality and respect for one another. We use a nationally-developed model to guide our conversation. Our facilitators are trained NAMI education volunteers who all have lived experience supporting a youth living with a mental illness. This a specialized NAMI Family Support Group for caregivers of youth living with or exhibiting symptoms of a mental health condition. Parents, foster parents, grandparents and other direct caregivers are welcome to attend. As always, participation is confidential and there is no cost to attend.
Thanks to the Eastern Iowa Mental Health Region for supporting this program. The support group is offered in cooperation with the many agencies working to improve children’s mental health. All caregivers are welcome.
This is a 90-minute seminar that informs people who have loved ones with a mental health condition how to best support them. It’s also an opportunity to meet other people in similar situations and gain community support.
Register Through NAMI.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN …
The seminar is led by trained people with lived experience of supporting a family member with a mental health condition. They will walk you through the following topics.
– Understanding diagnoses, treatment and recovery
– Effective communication strategies
– The importance of self-care
– Crisis preparation strategies
– NAMI and community resources
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES …
Once you’ve attended our seminar, we’ll send you Family & Friends companion eBook at no charge. It provides important information about mental health conditions including: conditions and diagnoses, treatment and recovery, crisis planning, resources and more.
NAMI Family 2 Family Flier BHC 9.9.24
An eight-session course for family members, caregivers and friends of an adult loved one living with a mental health condition.
Mondays beginning September 9. Learn More
Advance Registrations taken by NAMI. Register Now.
Class size is limited to (20). As this course is funded by the Rock Island Mental Health 708 Board, residents of Rock Island County are given registration priority. For further information, call our NAMI office at 563-386-7477-x 266 (M-F 10-2).
Calling all Team Captains and Sponsors. Enjoy special Mocktails and Hors d’oeuvres on the patio at The Half Nelson, Davenport. Let’s kickoff NAMIWalks season as we prepare for the Quad Cities’ largest mental health advocacy walk. Team captain packet pickup.
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A group for adults living with a mental health condition. No cost to attend. 4th Monday of each month from 6:30 to 7:30 PM
This group is held in-person at the Butterworth Center – Orchid Room, @ 1105 8th St., Moline. Use parking lot at 8th St. & 11th Ave.
(If you are looking for an online group, NAMI Illinois offers virtual groups Monday & Thursday @ 7 p.m. Please follow NAMI Illinois link.)
WHAT YOU’LL GAIN:
By sharing your experiences in a safe and confidential setting, you will gain hope and develop relationships. The group encourages empathy, productive discussion and a sense of community.
This group will help you to:
~See the individual first, not the condition
~Recognize that mental illnesses are medical illnesses that have environmental triggers
~Understand that mental illness are traumatic events
~Aim for better coping skills
~Find strength in sharing experiences
~Reject stigma and not tolerate discrimination
~Not judge anyone’s pain
~Forgive ourselves and reject guilt
~Embrace humor as healthy
~Accept that we can not solve every problem
NAMI Support Groups are unique because they follow a structured model to ensure you and others in the group have an opportunity to be heard and to get what you need. The group is led by trained facilitators who also have a mental health condition.
