NAMI offers mental illness awareness class for family

Submitted by NAMI

National Alliance for Mental Illness-Kane County North will offer a free 12-week course for family members, close friends and caregivers of persons with mental illness, including major depression, bipolar disorder (manic depression), schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder, borderline personality disorder, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, OCD, co-occurring brain disorders and addictive disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

A series of classes structured to help caregivers understand and support individuals with serious mental illness while maintaining their own well-being. The course is taught by a team of trained NAMI family member volunteers who know what it is like to have a loved one struggling with one of these brain disorders.

There is no cost to participate in the NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program. This is an evidence-based program, completed by more than 300,000 people worldwide.

The class will be held from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays, Sept. 5 to Nov. 21, in the St. Francis Room on the main level of Presence St. Joseph Hospital, 77 N. Airlite St. in Elgin.

Registration is required. The class size is limited to 20. Call Cathy at (630) 365-6689 or Laurie at (847) 695-7957.