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If you have questions about mental health challenges, NAMI-NYC can help.
We help families and individuals affected by mental illness through education, support, and advocacy. Our programs are led by trained volunteers with lived experience – we have “been there,” where you are.
We offer classes, support groups, and phone-based family mentoring, a multilingual Helpline, and much more. NAMI-NYC programs are free regardless of income, insurance, or immigration status.
For more information, call/text our Helpline at 212-684-3264 or email us at helpline@naminyc.org, and we’ll connect you to our programs!
Our Programs
- Support your family member. We offer classes to help caregivers better understand mental illness and how to support their loved one, including Basics, Family-to-Family, Family-to-Family for the Black Community, and our Family and Friends seminar. We have support groups depending on your relationship, such as parent, sibling, or adult child. Our Family Match program offers one-on-one emotional support and resources over the phone. Explore our family programs.
- Support yourself. We offer Peer-to-Peer, an 8-week class helping you on your recovery journey, available in English and Spanish. We also have a class for and taught by people who identify as LGBTQ+ and Young Adults (18-30). We have support groups around various diagnoses, ages, and interests. Join our peer programs.
- Help teens talk about mental health. Teens ages 14-18 can now call our Helpline and join our new support group, facilitated by a young person close in age with lived experience. Also, Ending the Silence is a 50-minute presentation bringing mental health conversations to middle and high schools throughout NYC. Connect to our teen programs.
- Learn the basics of mental health. Mental Health 101 is an accessible introduction to mental illness, how to support those affected, and how NAMI-NYC’s peer-led programs can help. Our NAMI-NYC Overview presentation provides a deeper look at our free services and how they can benefit your community, colleagues, or clients. Request a speaker today!
- Improve your workplace. Our Workplace Mental Health Initiative trains and engages companies on how to create mentally healthy work environments. Hire us at your company!
- Reduce mental health stigma. Through In Our Own Voice, people living with mental illness share their stories at hospitals, colleges, and other organizations to shatter stereotypes. Request a speaker.
- Advocate for change. Become an Advocacy Ambassador to talk to your elected officials about mental health access and other key issues. Advocate with us!