NAMI Family-to-family
Additional Information
Additional Information
NAMI will offer the NAMI Family to Family Education Program free of charge to participant each Spring. Our next class will start on April 27, 2025. For more information on how to register, please contact NAMI Blue Ridge Charlottesville at 434-260-8127 or namiblueridge@gmail.com.
This 8 lesson course is designed to increase understanding and advocacy skills while helping participants maintain their own well-being. The program is taught by trained family members who have a loved one with a mental health condition. NAMI Family-to-Family is an evidence-based program (EB). For information on the research base for the program, visit nami.org/research.
Participant Perspectives:
- “This course overall was without a doubt, the single most helpful and informative thing ever offered in all my years searching for answers…it has helped me to understand better and communicate more effectively with my brother.”
- “The course has helped me to realize that my son is still inside the body that is often times hidden by the mental illness and that I am not alone in this.”
- Family-to-Family is scheduled for each spring. Contact us for the specific dates and to reserve your spot.
Download the Family-to-Family flyer here.
About NAMI Blue Ridge Charlottesville
OuR mission
Our mission is to promote recovery and improve the quality of life of Virginians with serious mental illness through support, education, and advocacy. We envision a future where all people affected by mental illness get the hope, help, and support that they need. NAMI Blue Ridge Charlottesville is an inviting, supportive platform for families and friends of those coping with a brain disorder. It offers programs that extend support, resources, advocacy, education and community services to families in the Charlottesville Blue Ridge area.
NAMI Blue Ridge Charlottesville is a local extension of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Virginia, covering Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Madison and Nelson counties.
about nami Blue Ridge Charlottesville
NAMI Blue Ridge Charlottesville is a local affiliate of NAMI Virginia. Local affiliates play an active role in providing support, education, and advocacy at the community level. We operate support groups to let people know they are not alone and supply information and support when needed. We speak publicly to educate others about brain disorders and provide educational programs, free of cost, to youth and young adults, parents, individuals, and families affected by mental illness. We advocate for effective and timely services from local service providers, and offer hope to those experiencing the impact of mental illness.
Please see the NAMI Virginia website (https://namivirginia.org/) for more information and resources. Visit the Get Involved tab for more information on activities and advocacy opportunities and the Resources tab for additional information on mental illness. If you or your loved one needs immediate care, please visit the In Crisis link at the top of the page (https://namivirginia.org/crisis-info/)
