Family Support Group Facilitator

NAMI Lubbock is seeking Family Support Group facilitators. This is volunteer position and helps to facilitate a monthly meeting of families who have a loved one with a mental health condition.

NAMI Lubbock is the Lubbock Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness which provides support, education, and advocacyfor people living with a mental illnessand their family and friends. NAMI Lubbock operates as a Model B affiliate under the umbrella of NAMI Texas.

Qualifications for family support group facilitators:

• Facilitators must be adult family members (parents, siblings, adult children, spouses, partners, etc.) of a person with a mental health condition
• Facilitators must be a NAMI member before training
• Prospective facilitators will attend a weekend long facilitator training in order to be trained in how to facilitate a NAMI support group.

As a requirement for this role, the interested individual MUST attend at least two NAMI support group sessions before undergoing training to be a facilitator. Support group dates are available on the website here https://namilubbock.org/calendar/. After the individual is trained to be a facilitator, the ongoing monthly commitment would be to co-facilitate a 1.5 hour support group 1 to 2 times per month.

For more information about this volunteer position, please contact volunteer coordinator,Yvonne Okoro [email protected]