Welcome to NAMI San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo County Affiliate (NAMI SLOCO)
NAMI SLOCO is a 501 (c) (3) charitable, non-profit, tax-exempt organization of consumers as well as families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses. Members provide educational and emotional support for each other and advocate for better understanding, treatment and care of people with mental illness. Extensive training is provided by NAMI for those members leading support groups and classes. NAMI SLOCO is affiliated with the NAMI California and NAMI National.
NAMI San Luis Obispo County and the Andrew Holland Foundation merger. Click the image for the Press Release.
CURRENT AVAILABLE PROGRAMS
Family support groups are currently being held in person and on Zoom. Please email Aurora William, Family Support Group Coordinator, at mhadvocatenami@gmail.com for more information.
The 8-Week Family-to-Family classes are now in-person and on Zoom. Please contact vmeredith@t-mha.org for more information.
Monthly General Meetings will resume in January 2024, with meetings planned in North County, San Luis Obispo, Coastal, and South County, on a rotating basis.
NAMI on Campus programs have resumed and are thriving at New Tech High School in Nipomo and Templeton High School in Templeton.
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Diversity, Inclusion and Nondiscrimination
NAMI San Luis Obispo County shall actively recruit, engage and serve members from every race, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and disability and shall not discriminate in the requirements for membership, provision of service or support or in its policies or actions.
The NAMI San Luis Obispo County Board of Directors will regularly review their own composition and membership demographics compared to those of the community NAMI San Luis Obispo County serves using available data, in order to aspire towards reflecting that composition.
In keeping with NAMI’s values regarding nondiscrimination and with applicable federal law, NAMI San Luis Obispo County shall include in bylaws, operating policies and procedures and other relevant policy documents, explicit statements that require the organization to embrace the broadest possible definition of inclusion and nondiscrimination.
NAMI San Luis Obispo County shall collect a baseline of members’ voluntarily supplied demographic information. Systems shall be put in place to protect the confidentiality of this information; demographic information will only be reported in the aggregate.
NAMI San Luis Obispo County will reach out to and welcome the community at large through our recruitment, marketing, public education, and awareness activities. NAMI San Luis Obispo County will strive to support recruitment and retention of a diverse and inclusive membership and leadership. Whenever there is a demand and the interests of members can best be served by support through groups sharing some affinity, including but not limited to lived experience or primary language, NAMI San Luis Obispo County shall offer multiple support groups to address those needs.
“Community love and support will help us through this uncertain and challenging time. We are stronger together.”