Having a child with mental health challenges can be stressful, exhausting, and lonely. NAMI Southwest CT offers FREE SUPPORT GROUPS for parents of children and adolescents living with mental health conditions. NAMI-CAN (Child & Adolescent Network) support groups are confidential, safe, and led by trained volunteer facilitators with lived experience. Parents and caregivers may speak freely and be understood without embarrassment or the fear of being judged or treated differently.

Recognized nationally as the original and leading recovery offering of its kind, The CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© is an intensive, 4-day, training academy focusing on providing individuals with the skills needed to guide, mentor and support anyone who would like to enter into or sustain long-term recovery from alcohol and/or drug addiction. Offered to anyone, in recovery or not, who is either interested in becoming a recovery coach; working in the field and eager to elevate their skills or simply…