The NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group is a free, peer-led support group for people, over the age of 18 living with mental illness. The group is designed to connect, encourage, and support participants using a structured support group model and are led by trained facilitators living in recovery themselves.

We will be meeting in-person or online using Zoom. Zoom is a FREE online service that allows video and voice meetings between multiple people.

You can use Zoom from your PC at www.zoom.us, or download the app from your tablet or smart phone app store. The calendar below shows all our upcoming support groups, educational courses and events.

To register or for more information, email Allison at allison.namibutte@gmail.com

This is a unique, experiential learning course for people with any serious mental illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery. Peer-to-Peer consists of eight two-hour classes and is taught by a team of two trained “Mentors” and a volunteer support person who are all personally experienced at living well with mental illness. This class is free.

• The course was written by Kathryn Cohan McNulty, a person with a psychiatric disability who is also a former provider and manager in the mental health field and a longtime mutual support group member and facilitator.
• An advisory board comprised of NAMI consumer members, in consultation with Joyce Burland, Ph.D., author of the successful NAMI Family-to-Family Education program, helped guide the curriculum’s development.
• The two course “Mentors” are trained in an intensive three day training session and are supplied with teaching manuals.
• Each class contains a combination of lecture and interactive exercise material and closes with Mindfulness Practice (techniques offered to develop and expand awareness).
• Each class builds on the one before: attendance each week is strongly recommended.
• Participants come away from the course with a binder of hand-out materials, as well as many other tangible resources: an advance directive; a “relapse prevention plan” to help identify tell-tale feelings, thoughts, behavior, or events that may warn of impending relapse and to organize for intervention; mindfulness exercises to help focus and calm thinking; and survival skills for working with providers and the general public.