NAMI offers education for family of mentally ill
A twelve-week free course through NAMI-Minnesota is offered in the Duluth-Superior area. It offers information, skills and support for families and friends who have a loved one with a mental illness.
A twelve-week free course through NAMI-Minnesota is offered in the Duluth-Superior area. It offers information, skills and support for families and friends who have a loved one with a mental illness.
Like many other chronic illnesses, mental illness impacts individuals and the family members and friends who help support them. Isolation is often an additional burden resulting from the unnecessary stigma that surrounds these illnesses of brain functioning.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) provides the free Family-to-Family course across the nation, led by trained family members in the community. More than 300,000 family members have graduated from this program.
Family-to-Family provides information, teaches skills, and offers contact with other families. The course covers schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder, and the anxiety disorders. Duluth area co-leader Nancy Minahan says,
NAMI-Duluth Area offers Family-to- Family each fall, beginning this year at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 16. Registration is limited. To register, call Nancy Minahan at (715) 398-6471 or Ann Davidson at (218) 269-0780.
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