Happy Spring Everyone!!!
Get ready for our Mental Health Walk on May 6th!
Registration on Eventbrite will open on April 10th!
See you at Lake George by the Sunroom on
Saturday May 6th!
When you Check in after 9 AM be sure to get a ticket for a chance at Door Prizes!
Come and have a great morning!
Games! Silent Auction! Music!
Bring your Team! Bring your Family!
Walk begins around Lake George at 11 o'clock!
The National Alliance on Mental Illness
is the nation’s largest grassroots organization for people with mental illness and their families.
NAMI St. Cloud Area has been active for over 35 years, always blessed with dedicated Board members and volunteers who provide education, advocacy and support. Each October we have hosted a Mental Health Conference. We offer free monthly educational programs February thru December, raise hope and awareness through our Mental Health Walk in May, and publish a quarterly Newsletter. Our Family Support Group meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month...currently meeting via Hey Peers online meeting format. (Click on the Family Support Group link for more details).
We provide resources at many area events, and gifts to mental health inpatients at several area facilities during the Holidays.
Our NAMI St. Cloud Area warm phone line: 320-654-1259.
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The Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
If you know someone who is experiencing a mental health crisis, the following resources will help:
Calls or texts to these numbers will connect you to a crisis center where trained volunteer counselors or mental health professionals are waiting to help. The calls are free and confidential.
Call 988: After listening for options, there will be a pause while you are transferred to an available call center.
Text to 988 or Text 'MN' to 741741
Mobile Crisis Teams in Minnesota: **274747 (from mobile phones)
Every county in Minnesota has professional crisis teams that will come to you and help resolve the crisis and link you to needed services.
IMALIVE Chat: Online crisis chat service with trained volunteers.
imalive.org click the 'chat now' button at the top of the page.
Minnesota Farm and Rural Helpline: 1-833-600-2670.
or Text "FarmStress" to 898211
Veteran Crisis Lines: 988 (option 1) Text to 838255
or Call Vets4Warriors 1-855-838-8255
National Domestic Abuse Hotline: 800-799-7233
Text "Start" to 88788. free 24 hour hotline offering lifesaving tools and immediate support to enable victims to find safety and live lives free from abuse.
Those living in Benton, Stearns, Sherburne or Wright counties in Minnesota can still call the 4 county crisis line:
320-253-5555 or 1-800-635-8008
Our Mission:
NAMI St. Cloud Area's mission is to provide advocacy, education, support and public awareness so all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
NAMI St. Cloud Area's mission is to provide advocacy, education, support and public awareness so all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
