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1979–2026 · NATIONAL AND COUNTY (BOUNDARY), NO OSCEOLA CHAPTER FOUND
The advocates' body of the pattern is NAMI — the National Alliance on Mental Illness — a family-founded body, not a provider: it began in 1979 as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in Madison, Wisconsin (founders Harriet Shetler and Beverly Young; the national alliance formed September 1979), and stands today as an alliance of more than 650 local affiliates and 49 state organisations. For this county, the open record reached shows the body's working presence, not a founding date: NAMI Indiana's own support-group listings carry a South Bend NAMI Family Support Group and NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group meeting every second Monday, 6:30–8 p.m., at the Clubhouse of St. Joseph County, 1153 Northside Blvd., South Bend — peer- and family-led support seated inside a peer-run clubhouse, institutionally separate from Oaklawn, Epworth and every other provider named in this section. The Clubhouse itself — a supportive community for people whose lives have been interrupted by mental illness, taking referrals of adults diagnosed with serious mental illness — is a member community, not the advocacy association, and the two are printed separately.
What is not claimed: no founding date, charter date or founding family for a St. Joseph County NAMI affiliate was found in any open source, and none is invented. Named gap (founding only): settler — NAMI Indiana's affiliate records for the South Bend / St. Joseph County affiliate's charter and founding. No NAMI chapter, meeting or affiliate seated in Osceola or Penn Township was found; Osceola families' advocacy seat, like their clinical seat, is the county seat. The row's distinction is preserved whole: providers treat (arts. 57-6 to 57-8), families advocate (this article), and the consent fight (art-57-10) is what happened when the two met in a school without a signature.
Sources: NAMI, “Who We Are” and NAMI history (founded 1979, Madison, Wis.); NAMI Indiana, Find a Support Group (South Bend groups, Clubhouse of St. Joseph County, 1153 Northside Blvd.); Clubhouse of St. Joseph County referral form (rev. 10 Apr. 2024).