NAMI Finger Lakes Mental Health Awareness Challenge

NAMI-Finger Lakes is the Ithaca, NY affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).

We seek to:

• Support families and friends of people diagnosed with major mental illnesses
• Educate families and the public about mental illness
• Advocate for families and their loved ones

NAMI-Finger Lakes is a non-profit organization of volunteers with lived experience with loved ones living with mental mental health conditions. As a result, we are very familiar with our local services for people recovering from mental illnesses, and we are happy to provide help, hope and support to you.

Our programs include:

• Confidential support groups for family members and partners/spouses
• Support Line answered by family members who have lived experience with a loved one living with a mental health condition- 607-273-2462
• Support for family members with patients in Cayuga Med’s Behavioral Services Unit
• Family Forum- A monthly discussion on topics of interest to the mental health community locally- online and available for replay on our YouTube channel
• Family-to-Family Education Course for adults
• NAMI Homefront- Education Course for families of Veterans and active Servicemembers
• NAMI Basics- For parents of young people up to age 24 experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition
• Ending The Silence- A program for middle and high school students to educate about mental health conditions
• Educational events open to the public and presentations such as NAMI Family and Friends
• Speakers who will visit with college classes and community organizations about mental illness and its impact on families and our community
• A lending library of resource materials about mental illness
• Advocacy education 
• A weekly newsletter with items of interest to the mental health community

Please contact us – we are a safe harbor of support and education for your family while you navigate the impacts of mental illness.

For more information, visit namifingerlakes.org/MHAM