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NAMI Metro Suburban's Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a self-designed prevention and wellness process that anyone can use to get well, stay well, and make their life the way they want it to be. This eight-week course is designed to help individuals develop a personalized plan to manage symptoms and achieve recovery goals.
New Directions at Anixter Center offers expert linkage and referral care coordination for youth aged 8 to 17 who are experiencing an emotional issue or mental health concern and are involved or at risk of involvement with the justice system. Direct services provided: Mental health screenings & assessments, developing a wellness plan, supporting youth in the court process, and community reintegration.

Services

Mental Health Self Management Programs
General Mental Health Screening
Juvenile Diversion
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Chicago provides a Wellness Through Creativity Group to explore using various mediums like art, music and poetry to connect with themselves and others. All wellness classes are free, safe, and confidential places to talk things through with others who understand, and are led by people who have had similar experiences too.

-- Crisis Residential: A short-term program available for adults experiencing an acute mental health crisis. This program offers a safe environment for crisis stabilization and links clients to additional resources.

-- Supported Housing: Works with individuals with mental health symptoms that have impacted their ability to live independently. This program works with clients to improve their independent living skills to eventually return to the community.

Services

Case/Care Management
Inpatient Mental Health Facilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Mental Health Self Management Programs
Transitional Mental Health Services
Comprehensive treatment program for individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis. A team of providers collaborates weekly on supporting the clients in their efforts to function at home, on the job, at school, and in the social world. Services included are outpatient mental health services (a psychiatric provider and an individual therapist), a family education specialist, and a supportive employment and education caseworker.

Services

Psychiatric Case Management
Mental Health Self Management Programs
Thriving Thursday's, facilitated by a group of mental health professionals, aims to provide participants with a safe space to explore, expound, and engage in wellness practices. Thriving Thursday's is a free virtual mental wellness program that creatively introduces mental health concepts and self-exploration activities to participants through art, music, and movement.

-- Crisis Residential: A short-term program available for adults experiencing an acute mental health crisis. This program offers a safe environment for crisis stabilization and links clients to additional resources.

-- Supported Housing: Works with individuals with mental health symptoms that have impacted their ability to live independently. This program works with clients to improve their independent living skills to eventually return to the community.

Services

Case/Care Management
Inpatient Mental Health Facilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Mental Health Self Management Programs
Transitional Mental Health Services
Provides therapeutic and case management supports to persons with mental illness in their homes and community-based settings, at times and locations that reasonably accommodate the individual's and family's needs. CSTs provide intensive, community-based services and supports, designed to assist people with the management of symptoms so they can develop stability and independence. The CSTs aim to decrease hospitalizations and crisis episodes, increase community tenure and independent functioning, and promote social contact, personal satisfaction, and autonomy.

-- Crisis Residential: A short-term program available for adults experiencing an acute mental health crisis. This program offers a safe environment for crisis stabilization and links clients to additional resources.

-- Supported Housing: Works with individuals with mental health symptoms that have impacted their ability to live independently. This program works with clients to improve their independent living skills to eventually return to the community.

Services

Case/Care Management
Inpatient Mental Health Facilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Mental Health Self Management Programs
Transitional Mental Health Services
Works to support people affected by mental illness, educate with facts about mental health topics, and advocate for mental health concerns. Every NAMI signature program is free to those we serve.

NAMI Support Groups: Meet weekly providing support for adults living with mental illness and also for the family members caring for their loved one.

NAMI Educational Courses: Offered 3 to 4 times per year for the adult living with mental illness and for the family member or friend who wants to learn how to support their loved one.

NAMI public presentations: courageous adults living in recovery share their mental illness journey with the public.

NAMI Ending the Silence is for junior high and high schools,

NAMI In Our Own Voice is for the general public.

The Mental Health Wellness Center is located in Ames and is a peer-led drop-in center offering a stigma free environment of support. If you are in need of local resources, NAMI Central Iowa is here to help.

Services

Mental Health Information/Education
Mental Health Self Management Programs
Mental Health Associations
Families/Friends of Individuals With Mental Health Disorders Support Groups
Mental Health Drop In Centers
General Mental Health Support Groups