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NAMI Geauga
National Alliance on Mental Illness
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NAMI Geauga - National Alliance on Mental Illness

NAMI - Geauga County is for individuals, family members and friends of individuals diagnosed with major Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorders, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Co-occurring Brain and Addictive Disorders.

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness is a grassroots, non-profit education, support, and advocacy organization of families, friends, consumers, and professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life for all whose lives are affected by mental illness.

Our Middlefield Support Group meets at 7:00 p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of the month at the Middlefield Public Library. This group is for persons with mental illness and for family members and friends of persons with mental illness.

Our Educational Speaker Meeting meets quarterly at 7:00 p.m. Speakers meetings are held at various locations throughout Geauga County. Call 440-285-3945 or email mdoehring@mhageauga.org for more information.

Hand-to-Hand
Hand-to-Hand classes are for parents of children diagnosed with a mental disorder, including (but not restricted to) ADD and ADHD. Classes are held for 9 weeks at the Geauga Board of Mental Health and Recovery Services, 13244 Ravenna Rd. Chardon, OH 44024. Hand-to-Hand classes are open to all who have a child struggling with a mental/emotional illness.Call 440-285-3945 or email lreed@mhageauga.org if you would like to be added to our next class. Classes fill fast.

Support for Family Members and Friends of those
Affected by Mental Illness

The Geauga Board of Mental Health and Recovery Services
13244 Ravenna Rd. Chardon OH
7:00pm to 9:00pm
Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Geauga County National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Family and Friends Support Group If you have a family member, loved one, or child diagnosed with a mental illness (brain disorder), join us on Thursday, February 10th at 7pm at the Geauga County Board of Mental Health and Recovery Services, 13244 Ravenna Road, Chardon, OH 44024 for information, understanding, and support. NAMI provides mutual support for persons diagnosed with serious mental illness and their families. Our Family and Friends Support meetings are held the second Thursday of each month. No registration is necessary, and the program is free. For more information, call the Mental Health Association at (440) 285-3945. .

Managing Mental Illness a story featuring Sally Matthews in the News-Herald.

Speaker Meeting Dates

NAMI Family-to-Family

NAMI Hand-To-Hand

NAMI Peer-to-Peer Program

NAMI Support Groups

NAMI Walk

NAMI Geauga Officers & Board Members

The Mission of Nami-Geauga County is to offer mutual support and empowerment to persons and their families affected by serious mental illness through education, advocacy, and emotional support.

The purpose of the organization is:

To encourage and assist people with psychiatric disabilities to successfully live, socialize, learn and work in the community.
To advocate for non-disciplinary treatment of the mentally ill and to prevent exploitation of the mentally ill by any group, agency or individual, and to help alleviate the stigma associated with mental illness.
To advocate that the state and county provide for and protect the physical and mental well-being of the mentally ill.
To promote and support organizations whose purpose is to benefit persons with mental illness and their families.

A volunteer teacher says the education program can have a profound impact on those whose lives are affected by a loved one's mental illness. "Rather than trying to find your way in the dark, we can light a candle, and shed the light of facts and understanding on the confusion, fears, and 'aloneness' that come with these illnesses."