One out of every four families is touched by mental illness. The challenges are 

  daunting. Open Our Hearts is working to educate people about  

  mental illness; to provide needed support to families and their loved ones with

  mental illness; and to further this mission by helping Jewish synagogues and 

  agencies to make mental illness a recognized part of tikkun olam.

Open Our Hearts Monthly Support Group

For Family Members of Adults with Mental Illness

Fourth Monday of the Month

Next Meeting: June 25, 7 pm

(No meeting in May)

Temple Isaiah, 3800 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette

  Beit Knesset Building, Room E201. Drive across the upper parking past the Day School. The Beit Knesset will be on the right, with parking near it. Go to the 2nd floor; turn left at the 1st corridor.

Info/RSVP: 925-945-7272 or karen@openourhearts.net

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New: Updated Resource Listing

Click on “Resources” in the menu at the top of this page to find new resources for people with mental illness and their family members.

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Community Events of Interest

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) - Contra Costa

namicontracosta.org

Psychiatric Services

at the

Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (County Hospital)

   Learn about procedures in the psychiatric wards at the hospital from Chief Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Saldanha, Program Manager Todd Paler and nurse Sandra Varnell.

Thursday, May 17, 7 pm  (Come at 6:30 to learn about NAMI)

John Muir Medical Center Concord Campus

2540 East St., Concord   

  

  P’tach Libeynu is sponsored by Congregations B’nai Tikvah and B’nai Shalom of Walnut Creek and Beth Chaim of Danville; Temple Isaiah of Lafayette,  Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay, Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay and the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center.