NAMI Blue Ridge Family Alliance Meetings
Support group meetings, for families and
friends of persons who have a serious mental illness, are held
every first Thursday from 5:30 to 7:00. Our support group meetings are
held in the Board Room of the Region Ten location at 505 Old Lynchburg Rd in
Charlottesville.
Directions: From I64 exit 120, take 5th Street Extended
south (away from Charlottesville) for just over half a mile to Old Lynchburg Rd on the
right. (The entrance to the new county office building will be on your left.) Turn right
on Old Lynchburg Rd and then right again at the first driveway. The Board Room
is in the single-story Region Ten administrative building at the rear of the property.
Visitors are welcome.
The next support group meetings will be held on the following first
Thursdays: Oct 2, Nov 6, Dec 4, Jan 8, Feb 5, Mar 5, Apr 2, May 7,
Jun 4
Speaker Meetings:
Thursday,
October 16, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Residential
Treatment Programs
Daniel
Herr is Executive Director of Gateway Homes, which has a suburban campus in
the Richmond area. Warren McKeen is Executive Director of Crossing
Creeks, which has a working farm in the Harrisonburg area. Gateway and
Crossing Creeks are examples of exciting, but very different, residential
treatment programs for people with mental illnesses. Mr. Herr and Mr.
McKeen will discuss their programs and answer any questions that you may have.
Thursday,
November 20, 10:30am-11:30pm
NOTE MORNING TIME
America's
Mental Health Madness
Pete
Early, author of "Crazy" will speak at the Ablemarle County Office
Building (
1600 5th Street
Extended) in Conference Room “A".
Thursday,
December 18, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Mentally
Ill People in Other Cultures
Dr.
Niels Nielsen is a psychiatrist at the University of Virginia who has worked
on cross-cultural seminars for UVA doctors and residents. Jenny Oliver
is Executive Director of Mental Health America in Charlottesville. Dr.
Nielsen and Ms. Oliver will join us to discuss how other cultures view people
with mental illnesses, their roles in the community and their treatment
options.