Giving Tuesday is more than a day to give — it’s a moment to come together for mental health. This year, we invite you to watch our video featuring real stories from individuals whose lives have been touched by our programs.
Your support helps make these stories possible by providing compassionate care, peer support, education, and resources for thousands in our community.
Let’s continue creating hope and changing lives — one story, one connection, and one donation at a time.
How We Use Your Gift
NAMI DuPage needs annual funding support to continue providing hope and recovery support programs to individuals, their families and caregivers who live with the effects of mental illness. Specifically, your gift helps to fund:
- Training of individuals to become peer support workers in order to help other individuals and families.
- Educational, multi-week classes for individuals (WRAP and Peer-to-Peer), families (Family-to-Family) and parents (Basics) on developing strategies for coping and living with mental illness.
- Non-crisis Resource Hotline to provide resources and referrals.
- Youth education programs, such as Ending the Silence, for intermediate, middle and high school students in DuPage County schools.
- Recovery Connections Hospital Program for behavioral health patients of the six area hospitals.
- Customized community presentations on the basics of mental illness awareness and issues to businesses and organizations in the community, such as law enforcement, libraries and faith-based organizations.
- The Living Room: a nonclinical, peer-led program that serves as a safe, stabilizing and calming alternative to costlier hospital emergency room treatment.
- Work Readiness Program that offer individuals, living with mental illness, job preparedness and life skills training as well as job training in office administration, commercial printing, and food service/hospitality.
- Recreational Program that offers recreational and social activities in order to promote optimal physical and mental well-being and reduce stigma, alienation, and isolation.
- And so much more!
Donor Privacy Policy
NAMI DuPage is committed to respecting the privacy of our donors. We have developed this privacy policy to ensure our donors that donor information will not be shared with any third party, and to inform you of the way your information is used. We also provide you with the opportunity to remove your name from (or opt out of) our mailing list, if you desire to do so.