NAMI SACRAMENTO (National Alliance on Mental Illness
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Mission Statement
NAMI Sacramento is a grassroots, family and consumer self-help support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses. Severe mental illnesses are physically-based brain disorders that can profoundly disrupt a person's ability to think, feel, and relate to others and their environment. NAMI Sacramento is the only local mental health agency offering support, education, and advocacy for people coping with their own mental illness and for their family members, too. We receive no government funding and are entirely self-supported. All support groups, classes, presentations and information is offered free of charge.
About This Cause
NAMI Support groups are guided by trained peer facilitators and provide a confidential recovery support group for people living with mental illness regardless of their diagnosis. NAMI also has support groups specifically for family members who are supporting -or have supported - a loved one. Support groups provide a place where people with issues in common can meet and share information. This is a place to be with people who have been or are in the same situation with their illness or a family member's illness as you. Support groups are usually good places to learn about coping strategies and resources that others have found that have helped them. - The Family-to-Family Course is taught by trained volunteers who have a mentally ill family member themselves. - The Peer-to-Peer Course is taught by trained people who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness. - In Our Own Voice is a program by trained presenters who give personal testimony about their own journeys with mental illness. - Ending the Silence is an in-school presentation about mental health designed for high school students. Students can learn about mental illness directly from family members and individuals living with mental illness themselves. - Parents & Teachers as Allies helps school professionals identify the early warning signs of early-onset mental illnesses in children and adolescents in schools. It focuses on the specific, age-related symptoms of mental illnesses in youth, how best to intervene, and shared the lived experiences of consumers and families. All of our efforts include the goal of reducing the Stigma of Mental Illness. Too many people have hidden their condition for too many years due to the fear of society knowing about their health condition. This delay in treatment does no one any good...not the person...not the family...not society.