Bay Pines offers NAMI Family to Family mental health program

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Veterans and Family Members: 

Starting January 7, 2016, join the Bay Pines VA and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. for the NAMI Family-to-Family program.  The meetings will take place in building 1, room B214 at the C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center.

The program is offered at no cost and is intended to educate participants on how to support a loved one with mental illness and or substance abuse conditions.

For more information and to register today, contact Phyllis Beede at 727-547-8683 or visit nami-pinellas.org/family-to-family/.

You can also watch an informative video about the program at this link: https://youtu.be/ae1ru1SBaaI

Mental health conditions impact everyone…not just the individuals diagnosed.  The Family-to-Family program can help.

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.