Are you a parent, sibling, partner, or adult child of someone with a mental illness? Use your valuable lived experience to support another family member.

A Family Match Mentor provides one-to-one support over the phone for 3 months. You are paired with someone in the same relationship, loving someone with similar symptoms or diagnoses.

Through your good instincts and training in active listening, you’ll help other family members:

• Feel less alone and more hopeful
• Understand resources at NAMI-NYC and beyond
• Consider realistic expectations and relationships with their loved one
• Prioritize their own health and needs

This role is for family members of someone living with a mental health condition ONLY.

What qualities do successful mentors have? They…

• Value support and educating themselves
• Enjoy connecting with a variety of people
• Can balance sharing with privacy
• Are solid communicators and organizers
• As a bonus, speak Spanish fluently

With your experience of loving and being supported, you can provide empathy in the most meaningful way – because you’ve been there

If this role sounds like a fit for you, please fill out this application here.

We are looking for people to serve as greeters to attendees.

• Arrive one hour before the start of the assigned program or event.
• Assist with room set up.
• Welcome participants!
• Provide masks if needed.
• Direct participants to our office (downstairs greeter) or to the correct program room (upstairs greeter).
• Assist participants with attendance form using QR code or tablet (upstairs greeter).

Greeters commit to staying at the office for 90 minutes at their scheduled time.

• Must be comfortable working with people.
• Must commute to the NAMI-NYC office at W. 38th St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan.
• Must comply with NAMI-NYC’s COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

If this role sounds like a fit for you, please fill out this application here.