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Beaverton, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon Area

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals and families living with mental illness through support, education, and advocacy. NAMI Multnomah helps educate people in the Portland metro area about mental health issues. We hold regular educational events, weekly support groups, and quarterly classes to help individuals and families better understand how to live with mental illness, begin the process of recovery, and sustain wellness.Our volunteers teach free classes, lead support groups, and provide resource information to family members and individuals living with mental illness.

Salem, Oregon

• Advised the Mental Health and Advisory Management Advisory Council on mental health and addictions block-grant funding for adults• Focused on guardianship and addictions mental health initiatives such as Integrated Services and Management Demonstration Pilots, Adult Mental Health Initiative, and Peer-Delivered Services

Portland, Oregon Area

Guaranteeing a safe, protective place where family members can debrief the traumatic events and feelings they have experienced (Speaking Pain); teaching the specific guideposts of the emotional process traumatized people go through in their process of adaptation and recovery (Normalizing); creating a group-bonding process that will encourage candid self-disclosure (Coming Out); helping family members understand the subjective experience of their relative with a mental illness (Empathic Identification with the Victim); providing teachers who have borne this personal trauma and have "come through" (Modeling); showing the way to put living-with-trauma into a life perspective that fosters self-care and self-realization (Restoring One's Own Life-Line).

Salem, Oregon

• Strategized to successfully pass mental health and addictions parity in Oregon in 2005• Planned and executed 'NAMI Day at the Capitol'• Planned and executed two NAMI State Conferences: 2007 & 2009• Planned and executed the NAMI State Teachers' Conference 2007

Salem, Oregon

NAMI of Washington County (Oregon) is a non-profit and volunteer-based service organization.The mission of NAMI of Washington County is to be a grassroots, family and consumer/peer organization which provides self-help, support, education, and advocacy for improving the lives of people who are directly or indirectly impacted by mental illness.

Beaverton, Oregon

Certified Litigation Paralegal

Certificate Of Elementary Education

Sociology, Urban Studies

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