From NAMI National
New Announcements
1. NAMI Convention Newsletter - 30th Anniversary Convention in San Francisco
2. NAMI Releases Guide to Crisis Intervention Programs for Youth
3. March 20th Children's Conference Call with Dr. Ken Duckworth
4. March Adult "Ask the Doctor" Call with Guest Dr. Larry Davidson
Repeated Announcements
5. New Outreach Initiative Toolkit and Implementation Grants Available
6. NAMI Elections - Call for Candidates, Resolutions and Bylaws Amendments!
7. New GLBTQI Recovery Guide Booklet Available
8. Join HOUSE in celebrating NAMI!
NAMI Education and Program Information
Repeated Announcements
9. In Our Own Voice Train the Trainer applications due!
10. 2009 Training of State Trainers: Family-to-Family, De Familia a Familia, and Family Support Facilitator Group
11. 2009 Training of State Trainers NAMI Basics
Deadlines and Dates to Remember
1. NAMI Convention Newsletter - 30th Anniversary Convention in San Francisco
We are excited about the upcoming 30th Anniversary Convention to be held July 6-9, 2009 in San Francisco.
Our monthly convention e-newsletters are full of exciting program details about the upcoming convention.
Click here to view the latest e-newsletter.
Please share this newsletter with your members and colleagues.
Airlines are offering some great airfare sales for early bookings to San Francisco so we strongly recommend planning your travel now.
And don't forget, Super Saver registration discounts are available until March 15 for early convention registrants.
A complete program schedule can also be found on the convention web site.
See you in San Francisco!
In order to receive the convention newsletter regularly we encourage you to sign up for it on our website. To do so, simply follow these instructions:
- Log in (or register) to your account on the NAMI web site
- Select "mySubscriptions" from the tabs underneath the "myNAMI" graphic
- Check the box next to "Receive General Updates From NAMI" (It should be the first option)
- Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page
2. NAMI Releases Guide to Crisis Intervention Programs for Youth
NAMI has published a guide titled, Supporting Schools and Communities in Breaking the Prison Pipeline: A Guide to Emerging and Promising Crisis Intervention Programs for Youth, to help inform advocates about existing crisis intervention programs for youth and what they can do to promote and implement such programs in their states and communities.
To download a copy of the guide, please visit NAMI's Child and Adolescent Action Center (CAAC) or NAMI's CIT Resource Center. Advocacy fact sheets are being developed to accompany the guide and will be posted online soon as well.
For more information about NAMI's work on crisis intervention programs for youth, please contact Dana Markey, Program Coordinator, CAAC, or Laura Usher, CIT Coordinator.
3. March 20th Children's Conference Call with Dr. Ken Duckworth
Save the Date: Friday, March 20th, 2009, from 11:00a.m. to 12:30p.m. E.T.
Topic: Crisis Intervention Programs for Youth
We are very pleased to have special guests, Keri Fitzpatrick, Colorado Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) Manager, Colorado Regional Community Policing Institute (CRCPI), and Sandy Sayre, Director, CRCPI, with Dr. Ken Duckworth, NAMI's Medical Director and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, to discuss crisis intervention programs for youth during the March Children's Conference Call.
Ms. Fitzpatrick and Ms. Sayre manage Colorado's Children in Crisis program, a regionally?based crisis intervention program designed to divert youth with mental illness from the juvenile justice system by using appropriate crisis intervention responses and services. It has been successfully used within school and community settings.
Children in Crisis is one of three programs highlighted in NAMI's new guide, Supporting Schools and Communities in Breaking the Prison Pipeline: A Guide to Emerging and Promising Crisis Intervention Programs for Youth. To download the guide for the conference call, please visit NAMI's Child and Adolescent Action Center website.
Friday children's conference calls with Dr. Ken Duckworth, NAMI's Medical Director and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, take place on the third Friday of every month. The calls are toll free and are scheduled from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. E.T. To access the toll-free call, please dial 1-888-858-6021; access number 309918#. We hope that you will join us!
4. March Adult "Ask the Doctor" Call with Guest Dr. Larry Davidson
Save the Date: Friday March 27th
Please join us for our monthly adult issues conference call with NAMI's Medical Director Dr. Ken Duckworth, and guest Dr. Larry Davidson. Dr. Davidson is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Program for Recovery and Community Health at Yale University. His three major areas of research focus have been: understanding processes of recovery in psychosis; developing and evaluating community-based and psychosocial interventions to promote recovery, and; designing and analyzing policies to foster community integration among people with psychosis. During the call, he will discuss the topic, "Recovery is Happening Everyday."
The call is toll free and scheduled from 11-12:30 Eastern Time on Friday, March 27th. To access the call, please dial 1-888-858-6021; access number 309918. This call can be made from any phone.
If you have any questions, please contact Bianca Ruffin.
5. New Outreach Initiative Toolkit and Implementation Grants Available
NAMI National is pleased to announce the availability of Sharing Hope: Understanding Mental Health, a toolkit for outreach and education to African American congregations. This toolkit includes a practical guide to African American faith community outreach, a 60-minute scripted educational presentation for congregations, and more. Goals of this initiative are to decrease mental health stigma in this community, increase awareness of mental health recovery, and to introduce NAMI education and support programs. NAMI National is seeking applications to expand and evaluate Sharing Hope: Understanding Mental Health. NAMI National will award grants to eight NAMI State Offices or Affiliates. Each of the selected sites will receive a Sharing Hope implementation grant in the amount of $1,500 in order to cover the costs associated with the initiative. In addition to funding, grant program sites will receive technical assistance from the Multicultural Action Center, and will be able to participate in initiative updates/training conference calls.
Vist the Sharing Hope web page for more information. Click here to learn more about grant program requirements and to download the application packet. Applications are due March 30, 2009.
6. NAMI Elections - Call for Candidates, Resolutions and Bylaws Amendments!
Board Nominations are being accepted for candidates to serve on the NAMI National Board of Directors. Five candidates will be elected to the Board this year. Nominations may be made only by NAMI Affiliates and NAMI State Organizations in good standing. (To be in "good standing" Affiliates must have submitted their membership and paid dues at least 90 days prior to the Convention.) Affiliates and State Organizations may nominate no more than one individual each. Nominations must be on Affiliate/State letterhead and forwarded to the NAMI national office no later than April 9, 2009 (90 days prior to the NAMI annual meeting). Board nominees must be NAMI members.
Address Nominations to:
NAMI Elections 2009
2107 Wilson Blvd., Ste. 300
Arlington, VA 22201-3042
Nominations via e-mail may be submitted to governance@nami.org. Electronic nominations must also be submitted on Affiliate/State letterhead.
Bylaws amendment proposals and resolutions for consideration at the 2009 NAMI Annual Convention in San Francisco, must be sent to the NAMI office at the above address by return-receipt mail, postmarked no later than April 9, 2009 Proposed amendments to the NAMI National Bylaws must be submitted in amendment form.
For complete election information please, click here. After April 15, this site will also include: - candidate information (personal statement, letter of nomination, and answers to questions of importance to NAMI)
- bylaws proposals
- proposed resolutions
Questions? Contact governance@nami.org.
7. New GLBTQI Recovery Guide Booklet Available
A Mental Health Recovery and Community Integration Guide for GLBTQI Individuals: What You Need to Know is a 12-page colorful booklet that covers a range of key issues in mental health recovery and community integration such as treatment and rehabilitation, financial support, housing, employment, and peer support with specific information to address the unique needs of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Intersex individuals embedded throughout. This resource was created in partnership with University of Pennsylvania's Collaborative on Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities.
Click here to access the PDF. Hard copies of this low-cost booklet are available from the NAMI store.
An advocacy companion to this booklet, GLBTQI Mental Health: Recommendations for Policies and Services, was also developed in this collaboration and will be made available soon.
8. Join HOUSE in celebrating NAMI!
In recognition of the 100th episode of the FOX-TV running series HOUSE, cast and producers are celebrating NAMI as a charity of choice. Buy a "Normal's Overrated" t-shirt and support NAMI while showing the world that you appreciate HOUSE. Click here to order.
9. What's So Special About March 7, 2009?
It's the LAST DAY to submit applications for this year's "Train the Trainer," for In Our Own Voice Trainers. The deadline is approaching quickly. Don't miss this opportunity to add more qualified IOOV Trainers to your State/Affiliate! For the application form click here.
10. 2009 Training of State Trainers: Family-to-Family, De Familia a Familia, and Family Support Facilitator Group
The 2009 Family-to-Family, De Familia a Familia, and Family Support Facilitator Group Train-the-Trainer sessions will be held in St. Louis, MO.
Family-to-Family English and Spanish
The selected teachers must have taught at least one class in order to be facilitated. A $450.00 fee will be charged for each participant; the fee will cover lodging (shared room-starting Thursday, April 23), meals, and materials.
Family Support Facilitator Group
The selected facilitators must have conducted at least one or more support groups. A $300 fee will be charged for each participant; the fee will cover lodging (shared room-starting Friday, April 24), meals and materials.
We encourage you to take this opportunity to expand program capacity within your state and communities.
If you have selected your teachers, please send us an e-mail to 2009trainthetrainer@nami.org. Also, don't forget to include a support letter with the application. The deadline for registration is March 7.
To download the 2009 Training of State Trainers application, please click here.
11. 2009 Training of State Trainers NAMI Basics
The 2009 NAMI Basics Education Program Train-the-Trainer sessions will be held in St. Louis, MO starting Thursday, April 23 - Sunday, April 26.
NAMI Basics teachers must have taught at least one class in order to be eligible. A $450.00 fee will be charged for each participant; the fee will cover lodging (shared room-starting Thursday, April 23), meals, and materials.
We encourage you to take this opportunity to expand program capacity within your state and communities.
If you have selected your teachers, please send us an e-mail to 2009trainthetrainer@nami.org. Also, don't forget to include a support letter with the application. The deadline for registration is March 7.
To download the 2009 Training of State Trainers application, please click here.
For questions about the NAMI Basics Train the Trainer, please contact Teri Brister at tbrister@nami.org
Deadlines and Dates to Remember
- March 7 - NAMI Basics Training of State Trainers Deadline to Register
- March 7 - The 2009 Family-to-Family, De Familia a Familia, and Family Support Facilitator Group Train-the-Trainer Deadline to Apply
- March 7 - In Our Own Voice Applications Deadline for "Train the Trainer"
- March 15 - NAMI Convention Super Saver Registration Deadline
- March 30 - Sharing Hope Grant Application Deadline
- April 9 - NAMI Elections: Call for Candidates, Resolutions and Bylaws Amendments Deadline
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