NAMI-St. Cloud Area

NAMI-St. Cloud is a regional affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental illness. Its focus is to provide a voice for the local mental health community by offering monthly educational opportunities, organizing an annual conference, providing opportunities for local participation (ex. Mental Health Walk, Family to Family groups, etc.), and a quarterly newsletter intended to keep members informed of the latest news and opportunities within their local community. 

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Give to the Max Day, November 14, 2013

Your donations to NAMI St. Cloud Area can help make a difference in the lives of those who live with a mental illness.  Please make a generous donation on Give to the Max Day, November 14, 2013.  Just go to GiveMN.org. and click on Donate.  When donating, please to enter our name as it is  at GiveMN.org : National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, dba NAMI St. Cloud Area Thank You!

2012 Accomplishments

As another year comes to an end, NAMI St. Cloud would like to announce some if its  accomplishments: 
·         Veteran’s Voice, Mental Health Advocacy Committee Meeting—10 out of 12 meetings attended by NAMI St Cloud Area              
           representative, at St. Cloud VA.

·         Disability Council Meetings—attended by NAMI St Cloud Area representative 

·         4 County Children’s Mental Health Advisory Council—attended by NAMI St Cloud Area representative

·         Parent Voices—lead and attended by NAMI St Cloud Area representative 12

·         Fall NAMI St Cloud Area Conference Committee meetings—attended 11

·         Together We Can III Committee —attended by NAMI St Cloud Area representative

·         St. Cloud Area NAMI Walk Committee meetings—attended 23

·         Education Committee—CommUnity  

·         NAMI St Cloud Area Board Meetings—12

·         NAMI St Cloud Area Education Programs—11 

·         Mental Health Day on the Hill—attended by NAMI St Cloud Area representative

·         Coborn’s Brat’s Sale—attended by NAMI St Cloud Area representative

 NAMI St Cloud Area table with education materials at the following events:

·         Wellness Expo—Rivers Edge Centra Care

·         Project Homeless—Great River Library

·         Women’s Health Fair—Centra Care Plaza

·         Transitions Resources Fair—St Cloud Prison

·         Minnesota Prevention Resource Conference—Rivers Edge Convention Center

·         Minnesota Rehabilitation Association Conference—Holiday Inn

Supported the following:

·         Let the Sun Shine Run—Cold Spring

·         Mental Health Art Fair—Catholic Charities Hope Community Support Center

·         Mental Health Awareness movie “The Promise”

Sponsored with NAMI MN

·         Hope For Recovery –St. Cloud

·         Metal Health First Aid—Buffalo and St. Cloud

·         Grey Matters—St. Cloud

·         Minnesota Prevention Resource Conference—St. Cloud

Events held by NAMI St. Cloud Area

·         St. Cloud Area NAMI Walk

·         NAIM St. Cloud Area 26th Annual Conference

·         Together We Can III—Children’s Mental Health conference with ARC Midstate

And there were many meetings attended by NAMI Board Members.