Events & Resources June 2023
Family Support Group Facilitator Training
Date: Saturday, June 10 - Sunday, June 11
Time: 8:45 am - 6:00 pm
We are looking for individuals who are interested in being trained to be Family Support Group Facilitators. NAMI Family Support Group is a free, peer-led, confidential support group for family members, caregivers, and loved ones of individuals living with mental illness.
Interested and able to attend both days of the training? Email Ilya Cherkasov at icherkasov@namimass.org to register.
June Sharing Our Stories Presentation
Date: Tuesday, June 20
Time: 5 – 6 pm
Register for June SOS presentation
June In Our Own Voice Presentation
Date: Thursday, June 8
Time: 5 – 6 pm
Register for June IOOV presentation
Peer Support Advocacy Day at the State House
Date: Wednesday, June 21st
Time: 11:00 pm
Where: Room 428, Massachusetts State House
The goals of this Peer Advocacy Day event are:
1. Supporting exciting bills that would create 14 new Peer respites (1 in each county and the first LGBTQ+ respites in MA (S.1238/H.3602). Peer Respites are sanctuaries for healing offering people in deep emotional distress peer support and opportunities for growth. These are alternatives to avoid psychiatric hospitalization.
2. Fighting involuntary outpatient commitment bills (H.1694/S.980) which are euphemistically called Assisted Outpatient Treatment or Critical Community Care, but instead are about coercion and force.
Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa and Dallas Ducar, CEO of Transhealth will be speaking at the event. For more information on this Peer Advocacy Day, please contact Ruthie at (339) 224-4676
When Your Heart Hurts… Exploring Grief in Mental Health
Date: Monday, June 26
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
We know that mental health challenges are hard for our kids. But, what about you? Do you sometimes feel sadness, despair, and hopelessness? Join parents who “get it” to better understand and accept our grief when someone we love has mental health challenges. Offered by Parent/Professional Advocacy League: ppal.tinyc.co/626grief
New Treatments for Childhood Anxiety and OCD
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Meet the Scientist Webinar Series
Date: Tuesday, June 13
Time: 2 pm
Dr. Kate Fitzgerald’s clinical and research expertise is in pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders. She has studied atypical development of neural circuitry devoted to "task control" -- an executive control mechanism that enables an individual to suppress irrelevant automatic behaviors such as the obsessive behaviors seen in OCD. She will discuss her research to elucidate developmentally sensitive mechanisms of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that might make it possible to target task control differently for patients of different ages. Dr. Fitzgerald is also studying a play-based cognitive training strategy designed to reduce early childhood anxiety by increasing brain capacity for cognitive control.
Register
NAMI GB PSAN: Recovery Speaker Series –Yale Hicks
Date: Thursday, June 15th
Time: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Join NAMI Greater Boston PSAN to learn more about Yale Hicks' personal journey to becoming a peer specialist. Read about his journey and learn about the event.
Voices of Liberation: G's 2 Gents
Date: Saturday, June 10th
Time: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
G's 2 Gents 3 is a transformative event bringing together resources to help men take steps towards self-empowerment and personal growth.They offer free: professional clothes, shoes, CORI sealing, record expungement, legal aid, haircuts, professional headshots, resume coaches and printing, job opportunities as well as tools for mental & physical wellness.
This year they have collaborated with the MGH Community Engagement Team and Yard Time, Inc. to host the Heal the Hood Men's Retreat Room which offers free yoga & mats, meditation and books from the Book Club. Register for G's 2 Gents
NAMI: Ask the Expert- Precision Medicine Research
Date: Thursday, June 15th
Time: 4:00 pm
This webinar will describe the emerging frontier of “precision medicine” — a new approach to disease treatment and prevention that takes into account our individual differences in lifestyle, environment, and biological makeup. We will discuss how this approach may improve the understanding and treatment of mental illness. The webinar will also provide an introduction to the All of Us Research Program and opportunities to participate in this unique and potentially transformative effort to advance the future of medicine. Register for NAMI Ask the Expert
Calendar
Refer to the Support Group page of our website to find contact details.
Thursday, June 1: Teen to Adult Parent Support Group (TTAPS), 7 – 8:30 pm
Thursday, June 8: Family Support Group, Burlington, 7:30 – 8:45 pm
Monday, June 12: NAMI Central Middlesex Steering Committee Meeting, 7 pm. Contact us if you would like to participate: nami.cmsx@gmail.com
Tuesday, June 13: Family Support Group, Acton/Littleton, 7 – 8:30 pm
Tuesday, June 13: Family Support Group, Winchester, 6:45 – 8:45 pm
Thursday, June 15: Teen to Adult Parent Support Group (TTAPS), 7 – 8:30 pm
Tuesday, June 27: Family Support Group, Acton/Littleton, 7 – 8:30 pm
Tuesday, June 27: Family Support Group, Bedford, 7:30 – 9 pm
Thursday, June 29: Teen to Adult Parent Support Group (TTAPS), 7 – 8:30 pm
NAMI Central Middlesex Board of Directors 2023
All current board members may be contacted through the affiliate email address, namicmsx@gmail.com.
President: Lori Krinsky
Vice President: Open
Secretary: Rachel Krebs
Treasurer: Jennie Payne
Community Outreach Coordinator: Judy McKendry
NAMIWalks Coordinator: Tom Scurfield
Advocacy Coordinator: Lori Krinsky
Support & Education Coordinator: Ivy Pompei
Board Member at Large: Dee Febba
Board Member at Large: Kristin Howell
Board Member at Large: Dawn Bentley