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NAMI Family-to-Family is a free, 8-session education program for family, friends and significant others of adults with mental health conditions. NAMI Family-to-Family provides information about anxiety, depressive disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental health conditions. Other topics covered include communication, problem solving, treatment and recovery.
The 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.
NAMI offers the NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program free of charge to participants, each Spring. For more information and how to register, please contact NAMI Blue Ridge Charlottesville at (434) 260-8127or namiblueridge@gmail.com.
Participant Perspectives:
“This course overall was the single most, without a doubt, 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 reserver your spot..
Download the Family-to-Family flyer here.
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.
In person support group meetings are held every other Thursday from 6-7:30pm at the The Center at Belvedere.
Join us! Anyone with a family member or friend having a brain disorder are welcome, members and non-members alike! No previous notice necessary. AND, join us on Facebook
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Directions to the The Center at Belvedere, 540 Belvedere Blvd, Charlottesville, VA 22901.
From the 250 bypass on the north side of Cville, get off at the exit for McIntire and the John Warner Parkway. Take the John Warner Parkway (generally north) to where it ends, and continue straight ahead for 1/4 mile. Turn right on Belvedere (you will see Covenant Church there), and the Center is past the church and down the hill on the right.
If you are coming to Cville by driving south on US29, get off at Rio Rd going east. Belvedere (and Covenant Church) will be on your left in less than 5 minutes.
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/)
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NAMI Blue Ridge Charlottesville PO Box 8383, 1155 Seminole Trail. Charlottesville, VA 22906
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