NAMI Schenectady

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03/13/2024 – Legislative Action Day – Telling Our Stories

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Legislative Action Day will be March 13, 2024 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany.  Cindy Sood, President of the NAMI Schenectady chapter will be attending, but she is looking for one or two NAMI Schenectady members who are not currently on the Board to join her in telling our stories to the Advocate for Mental Health at the Legislature. If you are interested, please contact Cindy Sood at namischenectady@gmail.com by March 1, 2024.  For more information, please see the following:

Telling our Stories Legislative Action 2024

Spring 2024 – Family to Family Education Program

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Our NAMI Schenectady affiliate will be offering the NAMI signature education program, Family-to-Family, right here in Schenectady this spring.  It is an eight-week program, taught by experienced, trained educators who themselves have family members with mental illness. The course, like all NAMI courses, is free-of-charge, and this course is specifically designed for adults who have loved ones living with serious mental illness.  See the flyer below.  If you are interested in attending the course or would like more information, contact us at 518-986-9114 or at namischenectady@gmail.com.  Leave your first and last names and a phone number, giving us the best times to reach you.  One of the instructors will get back to you and ask you a few questions to make sure that the course will meet your needs.  The course is tentatively scheduled to begin on Thursday, March 14th in the Emmanuel Friedens Church on Nott Terrace at Chapel St.

F2FFlyer2024

11/03/2023-11/05/2023 – NAMI NYS Education Conference

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The annual NAMI NYS Education Conference along with the Off the Mask fundraiser will take place Friday, November 3rd through Sunday, November 5th at the Albany Marriot on Wolf Road. This year’s theme is “Our Time: Prioritizing Mental Health in Today’s World.” There will be a variety of sessions on handling crises, children’s mental health, military families, effective storytelling to reduce stigma, diagnosis-specific sessions and much more. Members who have attended in the past have found them to be quite informative, so we urge you to consider going.

You can find more information and register for the conference with this link: NYS Education Conference.

NAMI NYS Education Conference – Scholarship/Reimbursement Opportunity

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If you considered attending the NAMI NYS Education Conference but you missed the deadline for applying for a scholarship, your ship has come in.  The NAMI Schenectady Board has decided that, thanks to a generous grant from the Hannaford Corporation, the cost of attendance for any of our members will be reimbursed, with three stipulations:

  • You need to register for the conference.
  • You need to let the NAMI Schenectady Board know of your intention to attend before the conference starts.
  • Each attendee will write up a short description of what they learned at the conference and send it to namischenectady@gmail.com within two weeks of the close of the conference.

You can find more information and register for the conference with this link: NYS Education Conference.