Families Healing Together provides transformative mental health education and support—interactively and online. Our strengths-based recovery methods move families past fear and confusion into new states of wholeness, well-being and connectedness. We help families navigate the frustration that can follow a psychiatric diagnosis and the emotional distress that comes with psychosis and/or other mental health diagnoses.
Vision
Families Healing Together connects families around the world in a shared purpose of broadening perspectives on mental health and emotional distress. We enrich each other’s lives through education, support and the healing power of community.
Values
Families Healing Together believes mental health recovery is a deeply personal journey in which individuals and families move from despair to hope, from isolation to connection, and from despair to wellbeing. Available to everyone, recovery is a movement toward a self-directed, purposeful, healthy and satisfying life.
Purpose
We strive to give families an education about mental health that has been traditionally difficult to access. There are many places one can go to get an education about mental illness from a medical perspective/brain disease perspective. This is different. Here, we look at the mental health system from a critical perspective, and further, look at the causes and outcomes for people struggling with extreme states of distress that often get labeled as “mental illnesses” with objectivity and wide open minds. Together we find ways to learn, grow, heal, and be more connected to the people we love.
The Recovering Our Families Online Class is purposely facilitated by people who have recovered from being labeled with a psychiatric disorder, and/or who have family currently in recovery. Further, our courses are interactive. Rather than focusing mostly on the “identified patient” the class has a strong focus on self-reflection, personal empowerment, empathy building, and communication.
We will always remain free of any pharmaceutical funding.