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 advocacy for people living with a mental illness and 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 at volunteer@namilubbock.org
