NAMI Offers Family-To-Family Course

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As we know, mental health challenges profoundly impact families, close relatives and friends as they cope with loved ones. The NAMI [National Alliance for Mental Illness] Family-to-Family course teaches the knowledge and skills to effectively cope and thrive through these challenges.

Led by trained NAMI family members who have relatives living with mental health challenges, the course follows a structured format in a strictly confidential setting. Areas of focus include:

  • How mental illness affects your loved one
  • Cutting-edge research linking the brain to mental illness
  • Latest medications
  • Focus on your care alongside the care of your loved one
  • Advocating for better treatments of your loved one

Meetings are held in Hailey twice weekly, Tuesday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and are free of charge starting Jan. 28 for six weeks.

The course examines several categories of mental illnesses and mood disorders, insights into brain function and the latest on medications and their best uses. Crucially, we learn how best to cope with families and loved ones. We get to tell our stories. We are not alone.

Better communication strategies allow us to move away from the negative emotions of frustration, despair, guilt and grief toward empathy and self-care. Key principles of recovery and rehabilitation are addressed, leading us into advocacy and overcoming stigma (always a challenge!).

A guest speaker provides a first-account experience with and recovery from mental illness. Finally, we will meet and hear from people advocating for change.

Please join us as we help ourselves alongside our loved ones. Knowledge is power! You’ll gain:

     Information

Insight

Understanding

Empowerment