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UPDATED Family-to-Family Education Program starting

Offering a curriculum that focuses on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this course discusses the clinical treatment of these illnesses and teaches the knowledge and skills that family members need to cope more effectively
BayToday Staff
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Update:

Due to low registration – the event has been re-scheduled to February 26, 2018.

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Nipissing Family Peer Support Services will be offering NAMI’s Family-to-Family Education Program, starting on Monday February 12th, and running 1 evening per week from 5:30 to 7:30pm for 12 consecutive weeks. The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program is a no-cost 12-week course for family caregivers of individuals with a severe mental illness.

All instruction and course materials are free for class participants.

Offering a curriculum that focuses on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, this course discusses the clinical treatment of these illnesses and teaches the knowledge and skills that family members need to cope more effectively.

The course is taught by NAMI-trained family caregivers and peer support is readily available to all.

Parents of adults and children with mental illness, siblings, spouses, and adult children whose parent has a mental illness are asked to contact Melina Lavigne at (705) 494-4774 x 226 for more information and to reserve one of the limited training seats for this course.

Pre-registration for classes is required.