NAMI Moultrie taking applications for Family-to Family education course

Jan. 19--Has mental illness touched your family? Are you confused and looking for help? The local affiliate of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and NAMI-Georgia will offer the Family-to-Family Education Program in Moultrie again this year, beginning on Thursday evenings in February. This 12-week course is designed to help families face the challenges of brain disorders and find support, resources, and coping strategies.

The program is free of charge for families and caregivers of individuals with serious mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, co-occurring brain disorders and addictive disorders.

Randye Kaye, the author of Ben Behind His Voices, testifies that Family-to-Family "is the course that saved my family by teaching me what I needed to know to cope with my son's mental illness. NAMI helped me, and then I had the tools and the support to help my family -- including, eventually, my son."

The Family-to-Family course (F2F) was developed for NAMI by Joyce Burland, Ph.D. Burland is a clinical psychologist whose background includes years of experience coping with schizophrenia in two generations of her own family. Now over 20 years old, F2F is offered throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, and Italy. Course materials are updated annually to include recent research. Over 200,000 family members have completed the course.

Course leaders are trained members of NAMI Moultrie who have a family member living with a serious mental illness. The class meets for 12 consecutive weeks. Each session is 2 1/2 hours. Between classes there are additional readings which are related to previous class topics.

For more information on the Family-to-Family course and NAMI Moultrie, contact Lynn Wilson at lynnbw45@gmail.com, (229) 891-1725 or Shannon Bell at shann.mbell@gmail.com , (229) 454-1688.

NAMI has more than 1.100 affiliates in all 50 states as well as a national organization working in the areas of education, public policy, legal affairs, multicultural outreach, communications and development. Learn more about NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, at www.nami.org and www.namiga.org.

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