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Welcome to the Clackamas County affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. (NAMI-CC). Nationally, we are a grassroots family support group founded in 1979 currently having over 225,000 members.
There are over 22 local affiliates in Oregon and a state NAMI-Oregon office in Salem.

President:                            Mark S. Anderson
VP Education and Support:  Judy Winter
VP Outreach and Advocacy: Michele Veenker
Secretary:                            Carolyn Knaub
Treasurer:                            Lisa Wood

Office        503-723-4989

Our local motto is "Help and Hope for persons with mental illness and their families."

Following the NAMI NATIONAL  guidelines, we have three major goals:

Support : Personal sharing and empathy on a one to one basis on the phone and at our monthly support meetings(click on support tab for details).

Education: Excellent and free opportunities for you to learn about mental
illness, gain coping skills and find hope (click on education tab for
details).

From Discovery to Recovery- Free seminars - Click on education for details. Click on Education tab for details.

Family-to-Family -Mental Illness basics and coping skills. See Education page for details.

In Our Own Voice- frank talk from persons with Mental Illness issues.

6th. Annual NAMI Walk -will be  held Sunday May 17th. 2009 at 1:00 pm at the East Esplanade, under the Hawthorne bridge.

Advocacy: Opportunities to advocate for changes that will improve the
quality of life for our ill loved ones, including dispelling stigma and
promoting the fact that mental illness is a physical disorder and is
treatable (click on advocacy tab for current projects and See in a different light pictures)

NAMI-CC is an awarding-winning affiliate:
1999 - Excellence in Public Education (national NAMI)
2000 - Outstanding Efforts for Low-income Housing (OR Housing Comm.)
2000 - Outstanding Oregon NAMI affiliate (NAMI-Oregon)
2002 - Outstanding In Our Own Voice program (national NAMI)
2002 - Outstanding Advocacy Award (Eli Lilly Co.)

MENTAL HEALTH AND PUBLIC HEALTH MERGE.
Click on news for details.

NAMI PARTNERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. Click on Community for details.

MARIJUANA USE LINKED TO ONSET OF SCHIZOPHRENIA. Click on news for details.

REGISTER NOW FOR  F2F CLASSES - call 503-723-4989 click on Education.

IMPROVED ZYPERXA - click on NEWS

NEW SOURCES OF FREE MEDS- click on RESOURCES

VISIT NAMI BOOTH AT CLACKAMAS COUNTY FAIR - August 2009 - free literature.
Dates to follow

Crisis team number:  503 655-8401 (available 24 hours a day seven days a week)

Clackamas County Mental Health:  503 655-8401

Emergency:  911

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