The NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) network includes over 1200 local affiliates, 50 state affiliates, plus affiliates in Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, with a growing national membership of over 220,000.
NAMI-Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc. is a grassroots, family-oriented support, education and advocacy organization founded in 1981. Their programs are executed mostly by volunteers, but they are one of the larger and more organizationally sophisticated affiliates in the national NAMI movement.
For more information visit NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore | Home.
NAMI-Metropolitan Baltimore offers the following:
Peer Education and Support
Help-Line
Over 50 individuals are helped through our office help-line each week by staff and volunteers, many of whom are also relatives of people with mental illness or consumers of mental health services
Peer Education Programs and Mutual (peer-led) Support Groups
Family-to-Family (12-session family peer education course)
Peer-to-Peer (10-session mental health consumer peer education course)
(4) active family peer support groups meet monthly
(4) active peer support groups for consumers of mental health services meet in Baltimore City monthly
Community Outreach and Public Education
NAMI News – Topical newsletter, produced in-house and provided to all members, then regularly reprinted and distributed to organizations and individuals requesting useful information on those subjects.
Information Meetings and Workshops - Experts lead free public workshops each month every third Wednesday evening - September through June, and other times as arranged.
Many Faces of Mental IllnessTM Mask Competition and Exhibits - Outreach educational tool increases community awareness about mental illness.
Outreach: Includes In Our Own Voice: Living with Mental Illness (people with mental illness participate in presentations) and other workshops for a variety of different audiences.
Other Projects:
- Increasing anti-stigma and public education efforts
- Advocacy for improved police response to mental illness through training and systems changes
- Grassroots advocacy on local, state and national issues affecting our constituents
- Collaboration with mental health providers and other advocacy organizations
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