Get Involved

Ways to get involved in your congregation

• Join and participate in a local chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI).
• Start and/or maintain an outreach program to invite members of your community who receive mental illness treatment to your worship service and to create a visitation program
• Learn more about mental illness/ brain disorders. Invite a mental illness/health professional from your community and/ or congregation to be a guest speaker and host a forum during Sunday adult education class.
• Explore our Resources page for more ideas to implement in your congregation. 
• Become a Stephen Minister and/or start a support group for family members, friends, and caregivers of those of us with mental illness/brain disorders.
• Enlist the support of your parish nurse, your pastor and other congregation members for the above activities.
• Contact your synod and find out if there is a synod disability team. (If so, join and network with other leaders in your synod. If not, consult with your synod staff about the possibility of starting one.)