NAMI Southwest Washington is holding a STRive class this year! More info on their site: https://namiswwa.org/education/strive/

STRive stands for Steps to Recovery. It is a safe, supportive group providing mental wellness education and tools for a successful and sustained recovery from mental health conditions. STRive emphasizes recovery and personal responsibility as keys to a successful life, even when people experience mental health issues or crises. Strengthen your coping skills,  better recognize triggers, improve interpersonal skills, and learn to react in a healthy way to stress. Learn the building blocks to reaching and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Add skills to your mental wellness toolbox and learn from others in a safe environment.

The Steps to Recovery Course Syllabus

• Lesson 1: Healthy Self Esteem
• Lesson 2: Managing Impulsive Behavior
• Lesson 3: Learning Effective Communication
• Lesson 4: Social Support
• Lesson 5: Managing Anger
• Lesson 6: Managing Stress
• Lesson 7: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
• Lesson 8: Problem Solving
• Lesson 9: Sleeping Well
• Lesson 10: Developing Resilience
• Lesson 11: Creating, Maintaining, and Ending Relationships
• Lesson 12: Self-Empowerment
• Lesson 13: Calming Anxiety
• Lesson 14: Dealing with Depression
• Lesson 15: Battling Addiction (Co-occurring Diagnosis)
• Lesson 16: Taking Responsibility
• Lesson 17: Breaking Bad Habits
• Lesson 18: Overcoming Trauma
• Lesson 19: Balance, Focus, and Living in the Moment
• Lesson 20: Reaching Fulfilling Recovery

NAMI Family & Friends is a four-hour seminar that informs and supports people who have loved ones with a mental health condition. Participants learn about diagnoses, treatment, recovery, communication strategies, crisis preparation and NAMI resources. Seminar leaders have personal experience with mental health conditions in their families.

NAMI Sno-Isle

PO BOX 12487

Everett WA 98206-2487

https://nami-sno-isle.org/

(425) 339-3620

info@nami-sno-isle.org

About NAMI

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. NAMI Sno-Isle is an affiliate of NAMI Washington. NAMI Sno-Isle and dedicated volunteer members and leaders work tirelessly to raise awareness and provide essential education, advocacy, and support group programs for people in our community living with mental illness and their loved ones.

NAMI Sno-Isle, the local organization of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, offers NAMI Family & Friends seminar once a month, on the Saturday, October 19th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT via Zoom.

Audience Perspective:

“The real-life examples that the co-teachers shared were helpful in realizing we are not the only ones going through this and it gave us all some hope for better days for us and our loved ones.”

The University of Washington’s Center for Mental Health, Policy, and the Law is pleased to host a virtual speaker series on civil commitment. Civil commitment, or involuntary commitment, is a legal intervention by which a person with serious mental illness, or other criteria, may be ordered to a psychiatric hospital or receive supervised outpatient treatment for some period of time. Recent changes in the laws governing civil commitment across the country have fueled the longstanding debate about the role of civil commitment, understanding the balance between ensuring public welfare and protecting one’s civil liberties, and providing quality health care services within the mental health care continuum.

This series brings together an array of experts, including clinicians, legal professionals, educators, policymakers, and individuals with lived experience. The speakers will provide foundational as well as advanced content on civil commitment laws and processes, ethical considerations, and clinical practices for caring for persons with mental illness.

All are welcome to attend. The series is intended to be useful to both professional and community audiences.

Participants may attend one session or the entire series.

Please use the Registration link to read more information and to register.

NAMI Family-to-Family is a free, 8-session education program for family, friends, and significant others of adults with mental health conditions. NAMI Family-to-Family provides information about anxiety, depressive disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other mental health conditions. Other topics covered include communication, problem-solving, treatment, and recovery.

The course is designed to increase understanding and advocacy skills while helping participants maintain their well-being. It is taught by trained family members who have a loved one with a mental health condition. NAMI Family-to-Family is an evidence-based program. For information on the program's research base, visit nami.org/research.

“This course overall was the single most,

without a doubt, helpful and informative

thing ever offered in all my years searching

for answers...it has helped me to

understand better and communicate more

effectively with my brother.”

NAMI Sno-Isle is offering the free eight-week F2F class on Thursdays from 6:00 to 8:30 PM

starting January 16, 2025, in the Providence Regional Medical Office Building, Cascade Room,

1330 Rockefeller Ave., Everett, WA 98201.