Family-to-Family – March 23 Class to be Rescheduled

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Accepting registration for Family-to-Family 2020

Because of the recommendations of the CDC, NAMI Tallahassee has canceled the Family-to-Family classes scheduled for March. Registrants will be notified of the new date. Registrations are still being accepted for future classes. Classes meet one evening a week for 8 weeks.

If the registrations exceed the current space available, registrants will be notified and will have priority on a waiting list for the next class.

Class Dates:	Location
Canceled, To be rescheduled March 23 – May 11, 2020	Capital Regional Medical Center Conference Center 2626 Care Drive, Main Training Room (smaller building behind the main hospital building)

There is no fee to attend, but registration is required. – To register and for more information>

Family-to-Family – March 23 Class to be Rescheduledpstephens2020-08-05T21:28:07-04:00

NAMI Basics class

Cindy Forehand2023-10-25T15:18:16-04:00

Basics

NAMI Basics

NAMI Basics is a free 6-session educational program designed for parents and other family caregivers of children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral difficulties. This program is free to participants, 99% of whom say they would recommend the program to others. NAMI Basics helps parents and other family caregivers of children to understand the illnesses that are causing those behavioral difficulties, and the critical role families play in the treatment of those illnesses.

The program is taught by NAMI-trained teachers who are also the parents or family caregivers of individuals who experienced emotional or behavioral difficulties prior to age 13.

What You’ll Gain

NAMI Basics class provides information and strategies for taking care of the child you love, and you will discover you are not alone in your struggles. Recovery is a journey, and there is hope.

NAMI Basics is free and helps parents and caregivers:

Develop confidence and stamina to support their child with compassion
Learn about different types of mental health care professionals, available treatment options and therapies
Prepare for crisis situations, and understand how to navigate the public mental health care, school and juvenile justice systems

The program is divided into six sessions, including:

Basic elements of coping with mental health conditions
Brain biology and getting a diagnosis
Communication skills and crisis preparation
Treatment and connecting with others by sharing your story
Navigating the mental health and education systems
Self-care and advocacy

What People Are Saying

“NAMI Basics bridges the gap. It provides help that can’t be found in a doctor’s office.”

“This is such a great step by step program that walks parents every step of the way. It is as if you are holding their hand through it all.”

“The course is inclusive of almost all aspects of family and child resources. I could have spent a lifetime getting all this information on my own. I feel supported, strong and ready to go forward.”

Register for NAMI Basics here!

If you are interested in accessing local information about resources in Tallahassee and the Big Bend surrounding communities, please send a message to admin@namitallahassee.com. We would love to know if you are signed up for this online course and what you think about it. Please get in touch with us!

NAMI Basics classCindy Forehand2023-10-25T15:18:16-04:00

Affiliate Receives BBCBC Training Grant

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Big Bend Community-Based Care Grant Benefits NAMI Affiliates in the Florida Panhandle

Big Bend Community-Based Care (BBCBC) is the entity charged with managing mental health and substance abuse services from Madison and Taylor Counties across the entire Panhandle of Florida, north to Georgia, and east to Alabama. Within this region are four NAMI affiliates: NAMI Pensacola, NAMI Okaloosa and Walton Counties, NAMI Bay County, and NAMI Tallahassee.

As a part of the relief effort extended to victims of Hurricane Michael, which devastated the entire region in the fall of 2018, BBCBC has made funds available to all four NAMI affiliates for the training of program leaders. These leaders will work throughout their communities to offer NAMI programs at no charge to all who need them, especially citizens in the rural areas of the region.

For NAMI Tallahassee, this presents the opportunity to offer training to many of our members who are eager to become program leaders. Notably, we will be able to offer NAMI Peer to Peer training, an eight-week course for peers who are working toward sustaining their recovery. A new program to this area, we anticipate an enthusiastic reception from the peer community.

Additionally, NAMI Tallahassee will offer training for Family Support Group, NAMI In Our Own Voice, and NAMI Connection Peer Support Group program leaders. While all of these NAMI signature programs are available in the Tallahassee area at this time, we hope to train some leaders from surrounding counties while increasing our current capacity here in the capital city.

For more information about participating in any of these available trainings, which will be offered free on weekend days, please email admin@nami-tallahassee.org

Affiliate Receives BBCBC Training Grantpstephens2020-08-05T21:28:05-04:00

NAMI on Campus at FSU

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NAMI on Campus at FSU

We’re so proud of them. Check out their promotional video linked on the left.

Established in January 2013 as a Florida State University student government organization, their stated purpose is published below:

NAMI on Campus Florida State University, is a student-led campus club that helps to address the mental health needs of students and raise mental health awareness among campus communities through peer support, education and advocacy.

To keep up with the organization’s many activities find them on Facebook. Meetings are every other Thursday at 7:00pm in room 2500 of the FSU Wellness Center. To contact them by email, nami.on.campus.fsu@gmail.com.

NAMI on Campus at FSUpstephens2020-12-13T15:21:54-05:00

NAMI Basics

What You’ll Gain

What People Are Saying

NAMI on Campus at FSU

Our Mission

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