NAMIWalks Your Way – A Virtual Event

Live stream event @ https://www.facebook.com/NamiWalksGMV/

We are pleased to announce a walk for our times, NAMIWalks Your Way.

It’s like the regular NAMIWalks, only virtual and with a greater reach: the reach of your imagination, the depth of your compassion. With many NAMIWalks presented at the end of Mental Illness Awareness Week, on World Mental Health Day (October 10), it promises to be a day to remember. With such a united effort, we’re guessing that it will be easier than ever to fundraise, too. Please register a team or donate. Our programs and advocacy are needed more than ever and 100% of the funds raised here – stay here – for our no-cost education and support programs.

NAMIWalks Your Way means what it sounds like: With so many of our lives compromised and constrained, you get to make NAMIWalks your own. You can walk around your block, you can walk around your garden, you can walk with a wok in your kitchen. If you work from home, now you can walk at home. You can stand on your head. You can a form a team and see who is the funniest, fastest or most artistic. You can “Hula hoop for hope.” You can self-fundraise while you self-quarantine — or do it as part of a team.

Download Participant Guide_NAMIWalks Your Way

Download Fundraising Ideas: NAMIWalks Your Way

Download Team Building Ideas: Ways to Participate – NAMIWalks Your Day

Download Recognition Gift Program: 2020 NAMIWalks Recognition Program Flier

Department of Corrections Resource Fair

We will be visiting with Department of Corrections staff today.

CANCELLED. Visit with us @ Port Byron United Methodist Church

We will be presenting at Port Byron United Methodist Church 9412 228th Street N

NAMI Family & Friends Seminar at MLK Center

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.

Please pre-register online or 563-386-7477 Ext. 266 (10-2 M-F).

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 …
The NAMI Family & Friends companion eBook provides important information about mental health conditions including: conditions and diagnoses, treatment and recovery, crisis planning, resources and more. Register and we’ll send you links where you can download it for free at Amazon and Barnes & Noble where select languages are available for the Kindle, Nook and compatible ebook apps.

THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
This seminar is made possible by grants from The Rock Island Community Foundation and Rauch Family Foundation.

Now Enrolling Online Service Member Family Program

Online Course for Service Member Families Starts January 29

NAMI Homefront is a free, 6-session program for family, friends and significant others of military Service Members and Veterans. The class helps families understand what the Service Member/ Veteran is experiencing related to trauma, combat stress, civilian life transition, PTSD and other mental health conditions. Free. Confidential.

These online sessions fill quickly. Learn more: https://www.namigmv.org/find-support/nami-homefront/

HON Retirees Presentation

Education Coordinator Vicki Walters will visit with HON Retirees at the American Legion in Muscatine at noon today. Learn more about NAMI’s expanded programming in Muscatine County.

NAMI Family & Friends @ Musser Library