• NAMI Peer-to-Peer Class for Women in the Workplace on Sunday, March 12th from 6 PM – 8 PM. NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a free, eight-session educational program for adults with mental health conditions who are looking to better understand themselves and their recovery. Taught by trained leaders with lived experience, this program includes activities, discussions and informative videos. However, as with all NAMI programs, it does not include recommendations for treatment approaches. This class will be catered, specifically, to women in the workplace and will meet virtually on Zoom. For more information and registration, click here.
• March Monthly Meeting: NAMI Family and Friends on Monday, March 27th from 7 PM – 8:30 PM. Join us in-person for our March Monthly Meeting of a NAMI Family and Friends Seminar. NAMI Family and Friends is a 90-minute seminar that informs and supports people who have loved ones with a mental health condition. Participants learn about diagnoses, treatment, recovery, communication strategies, crisis prevention and NAMI resources. Seminar leaders have personal experience with mental health conditions in their families. For more information and registration, click here.
• NAMI Peer-to-Peer Class on Tuesday, March 28th from 7 PM – 9 PM.NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a free, eight-session educational program for adults with mental health conditions who are looking to better understand themselves and their recovery. Taught by trained leaders with lived experience, this program includes activities, discussions and informative videos. However, as with all NAMI programs, it does not include recommendations for treatment approaches. This group will meet virtually on Zoom. For more information and registration, click here.

For a full listing of our free to attend NAMI programs, additional details, and registration information, please visit the calendar on our website.

Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month, we will be bringing attention to women pioneers in mental health, as well as famous women who are using their platform to destigmatize mental health. To learn more, make sure to give us a follow on all of your favorite social media sites where we will be posting all month long.

Calling All Support Group Participants!

Did you attended a NAMI Connection (Peer) or NAMI Family Support Group with NAMI Northern Virginia in February? We need to hear from YOU! NAMI Northern Virginia offers 99% of our programs and services throughout the community for free — that means attending any of our support groups, classes, presentations, or one of our other programs costs nothing. We are only able to offer these critical services and programs at zero cost to you because of the feedback received via our program participant surveys. These responses allow us to show the impact and reach of our work, and since we have started providing these programs virtually, fewer and fewer people have been sharing their feedback with us. So, if you attended one or more of our NAMI Support Groups, last month, please take this opportunity to fill out the survey linked at the post below.

NAMI Virginia Program Leader Trainings

The dates have been set for NAMI Virginia’s early 2023 Program Leader Trainings! If you have benefitted from one of our NAMI signature support & education programs, and feel like you would like to give back and help provide hope for others, we are currently accepting applications for new NAMI Program Leaders! Program Leaders are dedicated and trained volunteers, committed to helping us lead our local programs. NAMI Virginia has scheduled training dates for NAMI In Our Own Voice presenters, NAMI Peer-to-Peer class facilitators, NAMI Family-to-Family class facilitators, and NAMI Family Support Group facilitators. If you have been a participant in any of these programs and would like to apply, fill out our volunteer interest survey, linked below!