NAMI BASICS CLASS
NAMI Basics is a 6-session education program for parents, caregivers and other family members who provide care for youth who are experiencing mental health symptoms. This program is free to participants.
The in-person course is taught by a trained team with lived experience raising a child with a mental health condition.
NAMI Basics Includes:
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The impact mental health conditions can have on your entire family
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Different types of mental health care professionals, available treatment options and therapies
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An overview of the systems involved in caring for children and teens
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Biology of mental health and challenges
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How to prepare for and respond to crisis situations (self-harm, suicide attempts, etc.)
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The importance of taking care of yourself
November 7th - December 12th
Mondays from 6:30-8pm ON ZOOM
Ending The Silence and PeerZone
NAMI's Ending the Silence program is a trio of engaging presentations to help schools and organizations serving youth and their families address mental health.
PeerZone Workshops are a series of up to 20 peer-led workshops for people who experience mental distress and addiction. The workshops provide a fun, interactive, and safe structure for participants to share their experiences, learn self-management and expand their horizons.
NAMI ETS For Families
NAMI Ending the Silence for Families is a free 1-hour mental health education presentation for parents and caregivers to help them better understand the emotional and behavioral difficulties that may be early warning signs of mental health conditions in children and adolescents. This program works hand-in-hand with the presentations for students and educators to help foster conversations, improve understanding, and decrease the stigma that often surrounds mental health conditions.
NAMI ETS For Students
NAMI Ending the Silence is an engaging presentation that helps audience members learn about the warning signs of mental health conditions and what steps to take if you or a loved one are showing symptoms of a mental health condition.
NAMI Ending the Silence presentations include two leaders: one who shares an informative presentation and a young adult with a mental health condition who shares their journey of recovery. Audience members can ask questions and gain an understanding of an often misunderstood topic. Through dialogue, we can help grow the movement to end stigma.
NAMI ETS For Educators
Doing What’s Needed
NAMI Ending the Silence for Educators is typically a free 1-hour mental health educational presentation for school professionals to help them better understand the emotional and behavioral difficulties that may be early warning signs of mental health concerns in the children and adolescents in their classrooms. The presentation also provides tips on how to intervene once the symptoms are recognized and suggestions on how to communicate with the parents and caregivers of the students to achieve the best possible outcome.
PeerZone Workshop
In Partnership with MHAAO NAMI Washington County is pleased to offer PeerZone.
PeerZone Workshops are a series of peer-led workshops for people who experience mental distress and addiction. The workshops provide a fun, interactive and safe structure for participants to share their experiences, learn self-management and expand their horizons.
Lived expertise
There are two types of expertise in this world. One type comes from theories and observation that lead to methods for solving other people’s problems. The other type comes from lived experience and reflection that leads to methods to solve our own problems.
Using our expertise to benefit others
PeerZone combines these two types of expertise. We used our lived experience to lead our own recoveries; now we’re adding the evidence from stories, formal research and evaluation to create programs and consultancy for the benefit of others.
This group meets on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
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