NAMI Wakulla Offers Mental Illness Recovery Support Groups

Join Us - It's free for everyone

What's a person to do after coming to terms with a diagnosis of mental illness?

Often the jolting news of mental illness leaves a person with the diagnosis reluctant to take a first step toward recovery and puts family and friends in a state of confusion.

Members of NAMI Connection, along with mental health professionals, will be on hand to discuss:

Support group successes

Who is eligible for NAMI Wakulla's recovery support groups

How meetings are conducted, and

Ways to encourage people with a diagnosis to take that difficult step to attend.

NAMI Connection is a recovery support group led by Wakulla County people with mental illness for people in Wakulla County with mental illness.

"We are excited that we can offer, not one, but two recovery support group meetings every week as a free service for people with mental illness," said Susie Tooke, president of NAMI Wakulla.

Turnout for NAMI Connection has been so popular that NAMI Wakulla expanded meetings to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday at the Wakulla County Library and 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the NAMI Wakulla office on Crawfordville Highway.

The Monday night program will also have NAMI Wakulla volunteers on hand to answer questions from the audience.

NAMI Wakulla's monthly meetings are free and open to the public; Monday's meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Crawfordville Woman's Club.

For more information, please check namiwakulla.org, or call NAMI Wakulla at 926-1033.

Mark Your Calendar!

Check out our Spring 2012 Newsletter for the latest news and upcoming events. Please note that will be NO public meeting on April 23rd; next meeting on May 28th, 2012. Also, Mark Your Calendar for the Annual Derby on April 21, 2012. Contact us at (850)926-1033 for ticket information and keep checking back for additional details. Hope to see you there!

OUR PURPOSE

NAMI Wakulla, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is a non-profit, grass roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization that offers peer education and training programs, as well as services for consumers, family members, health-care providers and the general public. Programs presented by NAMI Wakulla provide information, insight and support groups for those diagnosed with a mental illness, family and friends of those diagnosed, and community members. NAMI Wakulla, a group of Wakulla County volunteers, is dedicated to improving daily life for everyone through education, advocacy, fundraising and services.

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