"The Nation's Voice on Mental Illness"
NAMI Olmsted County serving the Rochester Area in Southeast Minnesota
903 West Center Street
Rochester, MN 55902
507 287-1692 (phone)
507 287-2063 (fax)
NAMI Olmsted County provides education, hope and support to persons who have a mental illness, their families, friends, and caregivers.
Our mission is to improve the quality of life for those who are affected by mental illness and to support research to more effectively treat and someday eliminate these illnesses.
Our vision is a world in which persons with biologically based brain diseases are healed, respected, accepted, and integrated into society.
Altering Public Perceptions About Brain Disease
NAMI Olmsted County provides education through conferences, newsletters, Community Education classes, presentations to groups, FAMILY to FAMILY education sessions with families and our resource center containing literature, video cassettes on mental illness, treatment approaches, and much more.
Periodic information meetings provide up-to-date information about treatments, medications, legislation, and other issues affecting persons with mental illness.
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Helping People Help People
Support is provided for family members through regular meetings of the "Journey of Hope". For persons with mental illness, "Bridges" is now forming. The "Circles of Friends" provides friendship and support to persons with mental illness and their families.
Raising Our Voices Together
NAMI Olmsted County advocates at the local, state, and national levels to protect the rights and promote the welfare of people with mental illness and their loved ones.
Finding Answers and More Effective Treatments
Research is supported by sponsoring educational programs on current research and an annual "Walk-a-thon" to raise funds for the National Association for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD).
Support Meetings:
The Journey of Hope meets on the first and third Mondays except for June, July, and August. For further information call: 507 287-1692
Bridges, a group for persons with mental illness, begins in September, 1999. Call 507 287-1692 for enrollment information.
Educational Meetings
Information meetings provide families with the latest developments in legislation, psychotherapy, estate planning, and other issues affecting persons with mental illness. Times and dates of these meetings are announced in the Post-Bulletin.
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