All support group meetings and educational programs are open to the public with no charge to attend.
Support Group for families and friends of persons diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness
Granite City
First Tuesday of each month Combined Support Group for Individuals living with a mental illness and their Family and Friends at Pascal Hall Meeting Room (down hall between Lobby entrance and Gift Store), Ground floor, Gateway Regional Medical Center, Granite City, IL, 7:00 - 8:30 PM. Contact Pat Rudloff at 618-656-6781. Use Main Lobby Parking Lot and Entrance. Sign in for badge ....all visitors must now have one!...and follow first hallway to right along side the Gift Shop to reach the meeting room, Or you can still use the parking lot adjoining the Doctor's Bldg. and entrance to "mini lobby" which is at end of the Walkway between the hospital and Doctor's Bldg. Main Lobby entrance is a shorter walk!
Greenville 
Fourth Tuesday of the Month A support group for family members at St Lawrence Catholic Church, Posch Center, 420 South Prairie Street, Greenville, IL 62246, 7:00 - 8:30pm. For more information please contact Linda Methvin at 618-664-6061.
Litchfield
Third Tuesday of each month, Sharing & Caring Meeting for Individuals living with a mental illness and Family Members at the Christian Church of Litchfield, 131 Yaeger Lake Trail, 7:00 - 8:30PM. Contact Shirley Ragland at 217-313-0165.
Edwardsville
Fourth Tuesday of each month, NAMI Family Support Group at First Baptist Church, 534 St. Louis St., Edwardsville, IL, (Use church parking lot entrance) 7:00 - 8:30PM. Contact Pat Rudloff at 618-656-6781.
Belleville
Third Tuesday of each month, the support group for Family Members and Individuals living with a mental illness, will meet at St. Matthew's Methodist Church, in the Library (Use Fellowship Hall entrance from parking lot), 1200 Moreland Dr., Belleville, IL 62223-3517. St. Matthew's is less than a mile from Hwy 15 E and IL 13 S.,
7:00PM - 8:30PM. Contact Mike & Kathy Janik at
618-277-5459 for more information including directions to the church.
Troy
First Tuesday of each month, Family member/Caregiver meetings at Saint Paul‘s Lutheran Church, 106 North Border Street, Troy, IL 62294, 7:00PM - 8:30PM. Contact Mary Ann Miller at 618-977-6542.
Support Group open to all adults with mental illness regardless of diagnosis
NAMI Connection on indefinite hold.
Questions regarding NAMI SWI meetings and inclement weather policies: when Southwestern IL College (SWIC) classes are cancelled because of bad weather
NAMI SWI support meetings are also cancelled. SWIC cancellation notices will be broadcast on all major TV and
radio stations in the St. Louis area.
There is an urgent need in these stressful times for NAMI to offer more support meetings
throughout the 12 counties we are attempting to serve. It takes volunteers to do this. Please
call the NAMI office 618-798-9788 for information about how you can become a support group facilitator.
Granite City
Bi-Monthly Business Meetings, Second Tuesday of the Month, Our next board meeting will be Tuesday, June 11, 2013, Gateway Regional Medical Center, Granite City, IL, 7:00 PM in the Pascal Hall Conference Room.
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