NAMI Basics Education, all six sessions of class will be held hybrid via Zoom beginning March 10, 2024. Language: Chinese (中文）/Mandarin （普通話）
February 2025: New Basics Class in Mandarin Chinese! Read More »
Thank you for being an active participant in our General Meetings. We are announcing that there will be no December general meeting for 2024. Instead, we will be hosting our annual holiday party in lieu of our usual sing-a-long. Come join us for the festivities!
Get ready to attend our November 2024 General Meeting Mental Health Speaker Series about the next steps in preparing for CARE Court led by NAMI CC Staff, allies, and attendees. They will debrief about the October 25th Care Court Information and Listening Session and discuss other news at NAMI CC.
Written by Gilian Foerster, a NAMI CC 2024 Intern.
LGBTQ+ Women have unique struggles in their mental health that are unkown to most.
If you couldn’t make it to our National Mental Health Day of Prayer, here’s your opportunity to catch up! In observance of Mental Health Day of Prayer, NAMI Contra Costa’s FaithNet Program lead an effort to bring a diverse interfaith group together on October 8, 2024. Read more for details.
Get ready to attend our October 2024 General Meeting Mental Health Speaker Series about the Basics of Special Needs Planning led by Attorney Ellen Cookman. She will cover Special Needs Trusts and ABLE Accounts and about how you and your family can use them as well as other topics. Click “Watch Now” for the video.
A recap for those who want to see it again or for those who couldn’t make it: on September 21, 2024, as part of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, NAMI Contra Costa hosted the 4th Annual “Know the Signs: Remembering Those We’ve Lost” event at Contra Loma Regional Park in Antioch. Watch and read it again here!
When parents and loved ones of a psychosis sufferer ponders what they are going through there is no way to know–not by a long shot.
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