Providing support services for families and friends of people with mental illness and/or psychiatric disability.

ARAFMI aims to:

• Provide emotional support for family carers and friends of people who have a mental health problem.
  
  
• Provide accurate information for carers to cope with the demands and pressures of caregiving.
  
  
• Increase community awareness and understanding of mental disorders.
  
  
• Decrease the stigma attached to mental disorders.
  
  
• Convey the needs of carers and families to health care, professionals, government and community.