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ABOUT NAMI-METRO BALTIMORE:

NAMI-Metropolitan Baltimore Inc. is a grassroots, family-oriented support, education and advocacy organization founded in 1981. Our local NAMI is a 501©(3) non-profit with a 12-member board of directors and an annual budget of approximately $464,000. Our programs are executed mostly by volunteers and supported by a staff of 3 full-time employees. One of the earliest affiliates, NAMI-Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc. is also one of the larger and more organizationally sophisticated affiliates in the national NAMI movement. The NAMI network includes over 1200 local affiliates, 50 state affiliates, plus affiliates in Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, with a growing national membership of over 220,000.  In 2004, National NAMI named us the "Outstanding Local Affiliate of the Year."

Peer Education and Support

Help-Line

Over 65 individuals are helped through our office help-line each week by staff and volunteers, many of whom are also relatives of people with mental illness or consumers of mental health services 

Peer Education Programs and Mutual (peer-led) Support Groups    

• Family-to-Family (12-session family peer education course)
• Peer-to-Peer (9-session mental health consumer peer education course)
• (4) active family peer support groups meet in Baltimore County and City monthly
• (4) active peer support groups for consumers of mental health services meet in Baltimore City monthly

Community Outreach and Public Education

NAMI News – Topical newsletter, produced in-house and provided to all members, then regularly reprinted and distributed to organizations and individuals requesting useful information on those subjects.

Information Meetings and Workshops - Experts lead free public workshops each month every third Wednesday evening - September through June, and other times as arranged.

Many Faces of Mental Illness^TM   Mask Competition and Exhibits - Outreach educational tool increases community awareness about mental illness. A new permanent hallway exhibit located at the NAMI office to supplement traveling displays.

Outreach: Includes In Our Own Voice: Living with Mental Illness (people with mental illness participate in presentations) and other workshops for a variety of different audiences.

• Increasing anti-stigma and public education efforts
• Advocacy for improved police response to mental illness through training and systems changes
• Grassroots advocacy on local, state and national issues affecting our constituents
• Collaboration with mental health providers and other advocacy organizations

NAMI METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE STAFF

Kathryn Farinholt: Executive Director

Deneice Valentine: Peer Education and Support Program Coordinator

Angela Tilghman: Outreach Projects Coordinator

Stacey Harrison: Community Outreach and Communications Coordinator

Dan Maxwell: Hispanic Coordinator

Sarah Allen: Volunteer Maryland Coordinator

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