NAMI Ventura County is an affiliate of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Founded in 1981, NAMI Ventura County has become the community’s voice on mental illness. NAMI is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons living with serious mental illness and their families. Click here to visit Ventura County NAMI if your family member, with a mental illness, has been arrested.