Jul 31, 2025 | Mental Health Articles
By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. NAMI Spokane is open to suggestions from others on what services to provide in the area. That’s why when Finn, a local teenager, approached the NAMI Spokane Executive Director about forming a support group for teens, NAMI...Jul 16, 2025 | Mental Health Articles
By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. As part of National BIPOC month, NAMI Spokane celebrates Discovery Counseling Group, a Black-owned business based in Spokane that offers culturally-aware practices. According to KeMoni Robinson, Marketing Manager of...Jul 2, 2025 | Mental Health Articles
Excerpted from the NAMI Peer to Peer Course Workbook By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. NAMI Spokane regularly hosts an 8 week course where people with a mental health condition share information to others with a mental health condition called...Jun 4, 2025 | Mental Health Articles
By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. See Me is a free presentation directed towards community organizations, groups, and the general public—anyone who wants to better understand mental health and learn how to support others. The presentation covers common signs...May 22, 2025 | Mental Health Articles, Uncategorized
By Emalee Gillis, NAMI Spokane Blog Editor. My journey with mental illness began with a commitment to an unsafe insane asylum in Africa where medicine men were encouraged to practice. My journey has spanned almost 40 years and has included seven psychotic...