Name: Peer Support Group
Start: 2024-10-03T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-03T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 800 Wisconsin St, Mailbox 88 Building #2D, Suite 420F, Eau Claire, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54703

Summary:
NAMI Wisconsin Peer Support Groups are free, confidential, and safe groups open to any individual who lives with a mental illness or mental health concern. Groups follow a flexible structure and include an educational activity. Individuals join a caring group of peers that offer support through their learned wisdom and participants can share as much or as little personal information as they wish.
Dates, Times & Location:
Peer Support Groups are held on the 1st & 3rd Thursdays of every month from 6-7pm. The meetings are held in At The Roots, LLC in Banbury Place, 800 Wisconsin St, Building #2D, Suite 301, Eau Claire, WI 54703.
Facilitators:
NAMI Wisconsin Peer Support Groups are led by two trained facilitators with lived experience. They play an important role in ensuring that all participants feel welcomed and supported. Facilitators are volunteers who become certified by completing a 2-day training. The training is designed for facilitators to learn and practice specific skills that will guarantee a meaningful support group experience for all participants. Facilitators are uniquely qualified to lead support groups because they have experience living with a mental health condition and therefore can empathize with and encourage those who are just beginning or continuing their journey of recovery. A NAMI Wisconsin Peer Support Group facilitator ensures that the group shares responsibility for maintaining guidelines, sustains clear participant boundaries, clarifies goals, and reinforces communication skills that encourage group participation.
Benefits:
Research has shown that having someone to talk with is instrumental in the mental health recovery process. Too often, mental illness is an isolating experience. Individuals often face feelings of helplessness that can be addressed to a degree by a supportive peer community that offers support, encouragement, and insight through shared experience. Recovery is possible for individuals with a mental health diagnosis, especially with the support of others. NAMI Wisconsin Peer Support Groups are informal sources of support and guidance. Groups do not recommend or endorse any medications or other medical therapies and promote all aspects of recovery.