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NAMI EASTSIDE
The Together Center
16315 NE 87th Street
Suite B-3
Redmond, WA 98052
425-885-NAMI (6264)
info@nami-eastside.org
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About NAMI Eastside Family Support Groups
NAMI Eastside family support groups are designed to support parents, adult siblings, friends, and adult children of people with a mental illness. These groups provide a place that offers respect, understanding, encouragement, and hope.
Family Support Groups:
- Offer a casual and relaxed approach to sharing the challenges and successes of coping with difficulties of loved ones
- Are facilitated by trained family members
- Meet monthly for 90 minutes
- Are offered free of charge
- Follow a flexible structure without an educational format
- Do not recommend or endorse any medications or other medical therapies
- Are guided by the NAMI National's Principles of Support (please see below)
All groups are confidential - participants can share as much or as little personal information as they wish.
NAMI'S Principles of Support
- We will see the individual first, not the illness.
- We recognize mental illnesses are brain disorders.
- We aim for better coping skills.
- We find strength in sharing experiences.
- We reject stigma in ourselves and others.
- We won’t judge anyone’s pain as less than our own.
- We forgive ourselves and reject guilt.
- We embrace humor as healthy.
- We accept we cannot solve all problems.
- We expect a better future in a realistic way.
- We will never give up hope!
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