Events

NAMI Western Massachusetts Virtual Annual Meeting 2026
NAMI Western Massachusetts Virtual Annual Meeting 2026

When
Feb 22nd, 2026
1:00pm - 3:00pm

NAMI Western Massachusetts

Invites everyone to this PTSD learning experience

To register go to Eventbrite or namiwm.org/events

Sunday, February 22, 2026    1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Guest Speaker

Nancy Lynn Chicoine is a recently retired Clinical Social Worker and Certified School Psychologist (NYS) with over forty years of experience working with children and families in educational and mental health settings. She will highlight the coping and compensation strategies she employed because of her lifelong struggle with the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, related to the physical and emotional abuse she endured over the course of her childhood and adolescence.  Invites everyone to this PTSD learning experience

She will share all that kept her moving forward through her life

This will take place after our business meeting. Absentee ballots will be mailed separately. If you do not receive a ballot by February 17 please contact our office. 413•786•9139

Only members will be able to vote.

Ballots must be received in our office by Saturday, February 21, 2026

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