Head this Way

Option Activities Resource List

  • 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
  • Start or join a Compeer program, serving as a friend for those of us with mental illnesses/ brain disorders. Call (253)383-5755 for more information (there is not a national number.)
  • 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. Call NAMI above or the American Psychiatric Association at (202)682-6220 for more information on mental illness/ brain disorders.
  • Contact Pathways to Promise, an interfaith non-profit organization dedicated to ministry with persons with mental illness/ brain disorders. Call Pathways at (314)644-8400 to find out more about their excellent resources. (Pathways charges for their resources; and LNMI highly recommends their resource "Pathways to Partnership: An Awareness & Resource Guide on Mental Illness.")
  • 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.)