{"id":152791,"date":"2025-10-22T12:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152791"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:28:57","slug":"family-festival-featuring-the-nami-walk-for-mental-health-saturday-october-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/family-festival-featuring-the-nami-walk-for-mental-health-saturday-october-25\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILY FESTIVAL featuring the NAMI Walk for Mental Health Saturday, October 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) <\/strong>is partnering with <strong>Communicare, Baptist Hospital<\/strong>, and the <strong>City of Oxford<\/strong> to provide the general public with information and local resources for improving mental health for individuals and families.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free health screenings will be available, along with healthy snacks, drinks, and prizes.\u00a0For the kids, the <strong>Oxford Park Commission<\/strong> is bringing games and activities (three-legged race, bean bag toss, etc.).\u00a0 And you won\u2019t want to miss the OPD mounted patrol, the fire engine, and the SWAT truck. The annual NAMI WALK begins at 10 am.\u00a0Or stop by just to enjoy the live music, chat with trained staff, or get your blood pressure checked.\u00a0Enjoy the healthy snacks, ask questions, and pick up free literature from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.namims.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.namims.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"988\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK-663x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C988&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK.jpg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK.jpg?resize=768%2C1187&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK.jpg?resize=994%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK.jpg?resize=1024%2C1583&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1025-NAMI-FallWellnessFestival-CMYK.jpg?w=1325&amp;ssl=1 1325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is partnering with Communicare, Baptist Hospital, and the City of Oxford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":152793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25295],"tags":[32854,5,32852,32853,4,3],"class_list":["post-152791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festivals","tag-family-wellness-festival","tag-mississippi","tag-nami","tag-national-alliance-on-mental-illness","tag-oxford","tag-the-local-voice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/NAMI-walks.png?fit=1600%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152794,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152791\/revisions\/152794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}