Nami Kern County | National Alliance on Mential Illness

Peer to Peer

For 10 weeks starting Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm

To reserve your spot please call JR Browning: (661) 301-3715
or email: jrbrowning027@gmail.com

PEER-TO-PEER RECOVERY EDUCATIONAL CLASS
OFFERED AT NO COST

What does the course include?
Peer-to-Peer consists of ten two-hour units and is taught by a team of three trained “Mentors” who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness.

Mentors are trained in weekend-long training sessions, supplied with teaching manuals. Participants come away from the course with a binder of hand-out materials, as well as many other tangible resources: an advance directive; a “relapse prevention plan” to help identify tell-tale feelings, thoughts, behavior, or events that may warn of impending relapse and to organize for intervention; mindfulness exercises to help focus and calm thinking; and survival skills for working with providers and the general public.

Peer‐to‐Peer is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery.

The course was written by Kathryn Cohan McNulty, a person with a psychiatric disability who is also a former provider and manager in the mental health field and a longtime mutual support group member and facilitator.

An advisory board comprised of NAMI consumer members, in consultation with Joyce Burland, Ph.D., author of the successful NAMI Family‐to‐Family Education program, helped guide the curriculum’s development.

Since 2005, NAMI’s Peer‐to‐Peer Recovery Program has been supported by AstraZeneca.