NAMI family support groups for caregivers are peer-based and provide a place that offers respect, understanding, encouragement, and hope. Facilitators are not counselors or teachers; rather, they are present primarily to give the group structure by opening and closing each support group session, guiding discussions, and shifting discussion when necessary.
NAMI Connection recovery support group meetings are for people living with mental illnesses. They are peer-facilitated and provide a place that offers respect, understanding, encouragement, and hope.
Through personal contact with seniors, our volunteers deliver vital services to the frail elderly and forge loving bonds between generations. In the process, both volunteer and client reap a rich harvest of friendship, wisdom, and mutual appreciation.
Lead walking tours of the working waterfront. Demonstrate industry skills (net mending, rigging, knot tying, etc.). Demonstrate maritime crafts (model making, marlinspike artistry, etc.). Talk with school groups or the public about your work and life.
Our volunteers are caring individuals who contribute significantly to the daily functioning of the Medical Center by supporting our staff in various departments, and assisting patients and their visiting families.
Become an Event Coordinator! From car washes to house parties, there are lots of ways you can be a leader in the community and support Milford Regional. Whether it’s your first time organizing a fundraiser or it’s second nature to you, we have resources to help you from start to finish.
The possibilities are endless! Volunteer in our childcare center to read stories or play games with the children, tutor students in ESOL or help them prepare for the Hi-SET exam in Spanish, lead a health workshop, help us raise funds for our school, share your expertise in computers, or lend us a hand with our…
NAMI In Our Own Voice (IOOV) is a public education anti-stigma program that includes a short video, personal testimony from two people living with a mental illness, and a question and answer period. The In Our Own Voice presenter will share their compelling personal story about living with mental illness and achieving recovery.
NAMI Basics is a six-session education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with emotional and behavioral disorders who developed the symptoms prior to the age of 13. The curriculum focuses on teaching the knowledge and skills family members need to cope. The course is taught with two teachers.
Evaluating and giving context to available resources to get the right tools into the right hands, and identifying individuals, schools and districts who have experiences to share. Experienced educators are especially valuable here.