NAMI’s Family-to-Family Education Program will be offered at 6 p.m. online every Tuesday for eight weeks beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 10. It is free of charge.

Sponsored by the Mid-Tidewater affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, this program has helped more than 300,000 family members of people living with mental illness over the past 20 years, according to a press release. The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has added Family-to-Family to the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices.

Topics to be covered include current information about schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder (manic/depression), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, and occurring brain disorders and addictive disorders.

There will be information about medications, side effects, and strategies for medication adherence, as well as information on current research related to the biology of brain dis...