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The NAMI Antelope Valley office is located at: 

44905 10th Street West
Lancaster, CA 93534

NAMI-AV normally has three meetings each month.  Meetings on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month deal primarily with caring and sharing with and for each other.  A general meeting, at which we invite speakers and provide education via viewing of DVDs and holding discussions, takes place on the 3rd Monday each month.  All meetings are from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.  We have speakers when available.  All meetings are free of charge. 

The meetings are held in Lancaster at:

Desert Vineyard
1011 East Avenue I
Lancaster, CA 93535

A library of reading material, videotapes and DVDs is available to members upon request.

Dates and times of some upcoming meetings and events:

• Monday, January 16, 6:30 - 8:30pm - General meeting - NOTE THE UNUSUAL STARTING TIME required due to the Martin Luther King holiday. Our scheduled speaker is Jeff Moffatt, an attorney specializing in SSI and SSDI cases.
• Tuesday, January 17 - Scheduled start of the Family-to-Family class at the Discovery Center in Palmdale.
• Thursday, January 19, 2:30 - 4:30pm - Scheduled start of a daytime Peer to Peer class. Another class is tentatively scheduled for April 19, 2012.
• Friday, January 20 - volunteers work at Angel's Bingo in Palmdale to raise money to support NAMI-AV
• Monday, January 23, 7 - 9pm - Care & Share meeting 
• Monday, February 6, 6:30pm - board meeting at the NAMI-AV office. All members are welcome to attend. 
• Monday, February 13, 7 - 9pm - Care & Share meeting 
• Thursday, February 16 - first meeting of 6-week NAMI BASICS class in the Head Start building at 10th Street East and Ave. P8. 
• Monday, February 20, 7 - 9pm - General meeting. Our scheduled speaker is Dennis Turkish, a psychiatric intake worker at Antelope Valley Hospital who will speak on bipolar disorder.
• Monday, February 27, 7 - 9pm - Care & Share meeting 
• Friday, March 2 - volunteers work at Angel's Bingo in Palmdale to raise money to support NAMI-AV

STANDING MEETING SCHEDULE:

• Share and care meetings - 2nd and 4th Monday (except holidays), 7-9 PM
• General meetings - speakers and education - 3rd Monday (except holidays), 7-9 PM.
• Board meetings - 1st Monday, 6:30 PM. All NAMI-AV members are welcome. Meetings falling on holidays are usually rescheduled to another day.
  

NAMI-AV CLASSES

• Family-to-Family. - Taught by trained volunteers, this is an intensive 12-week program for families to provide them with knowledge and teach them the required skills to cope with loved ones who have been diagnosed with a mental illness, facilitate the treatment process, and contribute to their return to health. 
• Basics - Taught by trained volunteers, this is a 6-week program designed to foster learning, healing, and empowerment among families of children and adolescents with emotional/mental/neurobiological disorders. 
• In Our Own Voice - Interactive presentations by individuals in recovery that are designed to raise awareness and reduce stigma by providing an honest dialog on issues related to recovery from a severe mental health diagnosis.
• Peer to Peer - a 10-week course on recovery for any person living with a mental illness who is interested in establishing and maintaining wellness. The course is taught by trained "mentors", or peer-teachers, who are themselves experienced at living well with mental illness. 

  Registration is required for all classes. Please call 661-341-8041.

For more information about NAMI Antelope Valley, please see our brochure, email us at nami-av@nami-av.org or call the following telephone number (note that this is a personal cell phone number, not a business office):

(661) 341-8041

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