The Somerset County Chapter of the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) provides a free course entitled Family-to-Family designed to help families negotiate the stresses of dealing with mental illness. The course runs for 12 weeks and will be next offered beginning September 13 at Richard Hall in Bridgewater, NJ. For further information about the course you can view the NAMI website and video at http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Family-to-Family&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=4&ContentID=85606 or contact the course teacher, Sue Ferranti, at ms_sues_mail@yahoo.com.
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Covenant Chapel Reformed Episcopal Church, 127 West Oak Street in Basking Ridge has launched a group aimed at providing support for caregivers to those with mental illness. The group meets on the 1st Monday of the month at 7:30 at the church. In the fall mental health professionals will speak at select meetings to share resources and techniques helpful to caregivers as they seek to care for their loved ones suffering with mental illness. To see a group brochure go to www.covenantchapel.org/MICSBROCHURE.PDF.
A group of Drew University students has taken it upon themselves to fight the stigma associated with mental illness. “DV8″ will appear at Mental Health Week at the Somerset Hills YMCA during the week of May 9. A link to an article about them is http://www.drew.edu/news/2011/02/14/erasing-the-stigma-of-mental-illness
