Submit an Application to Be a Support Group Facilitator
Prospective leaders must be adult family members (parents, siblings, adult children, spouses, partners, etc.)
What is NAMI Support Group?
- A 60-90 minute confidential support group for family and friends of people with mental health conditions that meets weekly, every other week or monthly (depending on location)
- Available free to participants
- Led by family members of people with mental health conditions
- Participants have an opportunity to learn from their common experience
- The support group model encourages full group participation and creates upbeat and constructive meetings
- Does not recommend or endorse any medications or other medical therapies
What are the goals of NAMI Support Group?
- Provide a safe place for participants to share resources and experiences
- Follow a structured model that allows all participants to feel heard
- Establish a sense of community
- Encourage empathy among participants
- Promote productive discussion so participants leave feeling better than when they came
Training:
Date: May 13 & 14, 2022
Location: Wisdom House in Litchfield, CT
APPLICATIONS DUE NO LATER THAN 4PM ON MONDAY, April 11th, 202
*Space is limited – Applicants are required to have an interview before being accepted into the training.
Facilitator Position Requirements:
- Willingness to undergo training and to adhere to fidelity to the NAMI Support Group Facilitator model
- Commitment to begin to facilitate or co-facilitate a monthly NAMI support group within six months of the training
- Commitment to communicate with NAMI Connecticut state office as requested or needed
- Ability to provide group participant data to NAMI Connecticut as required
- Willingness to identify potential new facilitators from their support groups
- Positive regard for, or personal experience with mutual support
- Be or become a member of NAMI