We work with individual families to assist them by clarifying options to make informed, educated choices, helping them cope with crisis situations, and providing emotional support and education.
Family Support Services offers free, confidential, trauma-informed services to family members and friends of adults with mental illnesses such as:
Contact our Family Support Specialist at (269) 364-6961.
ISK collaborates with NAMI Southwest Michigan (formerly NAMI of Kalamazoo) to offer a free Family-to-Family Program, facilitated by two family members with lived experience.
This educational program is evidence-based and is designed for caregivers, like family members, partners, friends, and significant others, to learn to balance the sometimes difficult tasks of caring for adults living with a mental illness while also maintaining their own well-being.
Thousands of families describe the program as life-changing and praise its teaching principle: “You don’t have to deal with mental illness in isolation.”
For information about upcoming sessions, visit NAMI Southwest Michigan here. To register, email FamilyEducation@namikzoo.org.
ISK also collaborates with NAMI Southwest Michigan to provide Family Support Groups as an extension of our Family Support Services. Participants join a caring group of people helping one another by utilizing their collective lived experiences and learned wisdom. Family Support Groups are facilitated by trained individuals who have lived experience with loved ones who struggle with mental health challenges.
NAMI Southwest Michigan currently offers two groups, one virtual and one in person. Both are free; registration is required for the virtual support group. (You can register here.)
Find support in a place where you can speak freely with others who have faced similar experiences and achieve a renewed sense of hope.
Learn more about Family Support Groups (including location & times) HERE.
NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has become the nation’s voice on mental illness, a nationwide organization with affiliates in every state and in more than 1,100 local communities across the country.
NAMI Southwest Michigan is committed to:
Offering hope and help to people affected by mental health conditions, and
Providing support, advocacy, and education to individuals living with mental health conditions, as well as their families, in order to increase understanding, reduce stigma, and promote a community in which the opportunity for recovery is maximized.
