Family to Family
Free Education class for friends and family begins January 5
The NAMI Family to Family Education Program is a free 12-week course for families and friends of individuals with brain disorders called serious mental illness. It begins Tuesday, January 5, 2010. The course is taught by trained family members who have lived with this experience. All course materials are furnished at no cost to you.
Topics include:
1. Family Responses to the Trauma of Mental Illness
2. Schizophrenia, Major Depression and Mania:
Diagnosis and dealing with critical periods
3. Depression and Bipolar subtypes; Panic disorder;
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD);
Borderline Personality Disorder;
Co-Occurring brain and addictive disorders
4. The Biology of the Brain: Emerging Scientific Discoveries
5. Problem Solving Workshop
6. Advocacy: Fighting Stigma
And much, much more!
Pre-Registration is Required-- Classes Fill Quickly!
Classes begin January 5, 2010 from 7-9 PM at the
Stanley R. Slater Building (1273 Lincoln Way West, Wooster-- next to House of Iron Gym.)
For more information call 330-264-1590 or Email: coalition@mhealthsupport.org
HAND TO HAND
NAMI's Free 9 class educational program designed to foster learning, healing and empowerment among parents of children with emotional/mental/neurobiological disorders. Click on "Hand to Hand" button for more information.
Registration is required.
Call 330-264-1590 to register.
MOCA House Recover Center Won!
The Wayne Holmes Mental Health Coalition is looking into opening a Mental Health Recovery House and has been granted approval to use the First Presbyterian Church's Manse on College Avenue (MOCA). Much work needs to be done before this dream becomes a reality and fundraising is the first step.
The Wooster Rotary, Kiwanis and Noon Lions are offering a service project to the winner of the public vote! There are three organizations in the running-Wayne Holmes Mental Health Coalition's Manse on College Avenue Recovery House won the popular vote and therefore the Service Grant! We are so thankful to the clubs and to our friends who voted for this important project.
For more information please call 330-264-1590 or email coalition @mhealthsupport.org
New Daytime Education, Support and Discussion Group
New, facilitated Education, Support and Discussion Group began on August 6, 2009 in Wayne County
We welcome Krista Wegner Lehman, MSW, LISW-S, as facilitator of these new groups. Krista comes to the WHMHC by way of the Counseling Center of Wayne and Holmes Counties where she has worked as a Home Based Intervention Therapist since the closing of PSR in March, 2009, where she served as a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Social Worker.
Wayne County: Thursdays at 1:00 PM at the Slater Building (1273 Lincoln Way West, Wooster) limited free transportation is available please call 330-264-1590 to make arrangements.
For more information please call the WHMHC offices or email coalition@mhealthsupport.org
