National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): NAMI National, NAMI Virginia, Nami Virginia affiliates
Description:
The NAMI movement works to raise mental health awareness, provide education and support, and improve the mental health system. These efforts involve three levels of organizational collaboration: NAMI, the NAMI state office, and local NAMI affiliates. As a big NAMI family, our pathways to success are intertwined, and each level has an important role to play. It’s valuable to understand the specific roles that each NAMI entity plays in the collective mental health movement.
Mission: To eradicate mental illnesses and to improve the quality of life of all who are affected by these diseases.
Vision: Building better lives for the millions impacted by mental illness
NAMI Virginia (NAMI state organization)
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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 world where all people affected by mental illness get the hope, help, and support that they need.
NAMI Virginia and our affiliates offer an array of free online peer led support and educational resources.
Affiliates work in local communities to provide support, education, and advocacy. Affiliates are often made up of volunteers who are personally connected to mental health conditions that use that lived expertise to provide support, information and advocacy to promote mental wellness and awareness in their local communities. Affiliates offer a variety of free services including support groups, educational courses, helpline and educational presentations and meetings. Affiliates are created based on the coordinated efforts of local volunteers with NAMI Virginia’s assistance.