ABOUT NAMI VERMONT

NAMI Vermont is a statewide volunteer organization comprised of family members, friends, and individuals living with  a mental illness. We have experienced the struggles and have joined together in membership to help ourselves and others by providing support, information, education and advocacy.

NAMI Vermont began as a spontaneous, grassroots family movement in 1983, just six years after NAMI National was founded. NAMI Vermont was incorporated as a state organization affiliated with NAMI in 1984, and today offers family & peer recovery support groups as well as Family-to-Family, Mental Illness and the Family and Provider Education. With a dedicated board, over one hundred volunteers, and four staff members, NAMI Vermont provides education, advocacy and support to those in need.

Meet our Board of Directors

• Wendy Beinner (President/CEO): Waterbury, Vermont

• Karen Kelley (Board Chair): Burlington, Vermont

• Michelle Tavares (Board Vice Chair): Bellows Falls, Vermont

• Cathy Rickerby (Board Treasurer): Middlebury, Vermont

• Christine Bilbrey (Board Secretary): Barre, Vermont

• Paul Blake: Waterbury Center, Vermont

• Ron BosLun: Bellows Falls, Vermont

• Eileen Curtis: Charlotte, Vermont

• Carole Furr: Richmond, Vermont

• Ruth Kennedy Grant: Vergennes, Vermont

• Debra Lynde: Colchester, Vermont

• Clare Munat: Londonderry, Vermont

• Candace Neary: Belmont, Vermont

• Ellen Vaut: South Burlington, Vermont

NAMI Board Meetings are Open to the Public

  Tentative Board Meeting Dates:

• Saturday January 19, 2013

• Saturday March 16, 2013

• Saturday June 15, 2013

• Saturday September 21, 2013

• Saturday November 16, 2012