NAMI Colorado Springs is an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the United States' largest grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with mental illness. As such, we enjoy access to nationally developed and vetted programs and educational materials while operating as a fully independent and locally run 501c3 nonprofit organization. Our programs and support groups are peer-led and always free to the community. They emphasize that mental illness is biologically based, treatable and common — with 1 in 5 of us experiencing it in any given year.