annual conference

NAMI NH 2025 Virtual Annual Conference

Session Description

Lori Weaver, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services; & Susan Stearns, Executive Director, NAMI New Hampshire

The State of New Hampshire’s Mental Health System

Join this session as NAMI NH’s Executive Director Susan Stearns officially opens the conference for the day.  She will provide NAMI NH updates and introduce Lori Weaver, Commissioner, NH Department of Health and Human Services.  Commissioner Weaver will discuss the state of NH’s mental health system.

Participants will:

    • Increase awareness of resources, for all stages and ages of their mental health journey.
    • Leave the conference feeling empowered and hopeful.
    • Be part of a community of mental health – recognizing they are not alone, that NAMI NH is families helping families.
    • Recognize the importance of peer voices and lived experience.
    • Learn ways to reduce stigma and discrimination.
    • Understand the many forms mental health recovery takes.
    • Learn individual advocacy.
    • Understand mental health is connected with overall health and well-being.

Each spring, NAMI NH hosts an annual conference. Participants come from communities all around New Hampshire and are interested in learning more about mental illness. This includes broadening their understanding of ways to support each other, reduce stigma, advocate for quality mental health services and find needed resources. Those we encourage to attend include parents or caregivers who have a child or youth with an emotional disorder, families who are supporting an adult or older adult loved one with mental illness, those who have a mental illness, military families, peer recovery professionals, individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide, families and individuals who are struggling with co-occurring disorders and the service providers who support recovery efforts in New Hampshire. This is an opportunity to come together to learn, network and communicate messages of hope.

We are grateful for our Annual Conference Sponsors and Donors, who make it possible to offer this event at no charge to attendees. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, contact Kristen Welch, CFRE, Director of Development.

2025 Annual Conference Sponsors

Hope Sponsor

Workshop Sponsor