Signature Programs
This evidence-based program is for Family members of people with mental illnesses.
What is Family-to-Family (De Familia a Familia)?
This organization was created in 1979 by a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table and has blossomed into the nation's leading voice on mental health.
What is NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)?
One in Five adults in America have this, but Five in Five are affected.
What is Mental Illness?
This is the local NAMI affiliate which covers Denton, Collin, Rockwall, and the northern part of Dallas county.
What is NAMI North Texas?
This person is the Executive Director of NAMI North Texas and has been with the organization since 2022.
Who is Kasey Smith?
People in this class are looking to set a vision and goals for the future, partner with health care providers, and share their story among other skills.
What is Peer-to-Peer?
Dr. Jerome and Hazel Byers founded this Affiliate of NAMI in 1982.
This is the most common mental illness in the US and can manifest as feelings of dread, anticipating the worst, and shortness of breath.
What is Anxiety?
This emergency mental health line which was originally 1-800-273-TALK(8255) was shortened to this three-digit number in 2022.
What is 988?
This person started as an intern at NAMI North Texas before being promoted to her current position.
Who is Marisa Alonso?
Both Family Support Groups and Connection Recovery Support Groups utilize four structures: Agenda, Group Guidelines, Emotional Stages of Recovery, and this list.
What are the Principles of Support?
This NSO (NAMI State Organization) assists us with trainings, state-wide collaborations, and keeping fidelity.
What is NAMI Texas?
About 2 million times a year, people with serious mental illness are booked into this kind of facility.
What is Jail?
Examples of this are Metrocare, Denton MHMR, Lifepath, and NTBHA.
What are Local/Behavioral Mental Health Authorities?
This staff member was active with NAMI Central Texas and NAMI St. Louis before coming on board with us.
Who is Olivia Frolichstein?
This community conversation series utilize sharing stories to destigmatize and introduce mental health and wellness in the Black/African Ancestry Community.
Sharing Hope
This was the original name of the National Alliance of Mental Illness and conveniently means "Friend" in French as well.
What is AMI?
This is the average delay between onset of mental illness symptoms and treatment.
The award-winning program is the first of its kind: in-person, no-cost, confidential, community-based, inter-agency peer support network for first responders.
What is NAMI North Texas's Overwatch Peer Support (OPS) Program?
This staff member graduated from UT Austin and plans to become a Physician's Assistant.
Who is Amya Waldrop?
This module is the first of seven in the NAMI Smarts for Advocacy workshop series.
What is NAMI Smarts for Advocacy: Telling Your Story?
This event is NAMI's oldest signature fundraising program, and will be hosted for NAMI North Texas on May 17th, 2025.
3% of people will experience this symptom of mental illnesses at some point in their lives and can involve hearing, seeing, or believing things that aren't true.
What is Psychosis?
This volunteer has been with NAMI North Texas for 12 years and is able to train, teach, facilitate, and present NAMI programming when she is not helping in office 9am-1pm.
Who is Claudia Smith?