NAMI Basics Teacher Training

NAMI BASICS TEACHER TRAINING: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CARING FOR YOU, YOUR FAMILY
AND YOUR CHILD WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

Hillsborough, NC, April 4-6, 2008 – The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of North Carolina is looking for interested participants for its first teacher training for the new NAMI Basics educational program for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illness. This training will be held at the Holiday Inn Express in Hillsborough, NC April 4-6, 2008. NAMI NC was chosen as a roll out state for this new program and is training teachers in order to offer this class to other parents and caregivers across the state.

The NAMI Basics program will teach elements such as: the recognition of mental illness as a continuing traumatic event for the child and family; sensitivity to the subjective emotional issues faced by family caregivers and well children in the family; recognition of the need to help ameliorate the day-to-day objective burdens of care and management; gaining confidence and stamina for what can be a life-long role of family understanding and support; and empowerment of family caregivers as effective advocates for their children. In order to be trained to teach this class you must be a parent or direct caregiver of an individual who was showing symptoms of a mental illness before the age of 13 (it is not necessary that the child have been formally diagnosed prior to 13 and it does not matter what age your child is now). It is important that all individuals trained in this curriculum have lived through the experiences of having a young child with a mental illness.

This will be an intensive weekend training on how to teach the curriculum and we need participants who are willing to make a commitment to complete the 15-hour course once it begins. Lodging and food will be covered with no cost to trainees.


Contact: Jennifer K. Rothman, Program Director
Company: NAMI, NC
Phone: 919-788-0801 or 800-451-9682
Fax: 919-788-0906
Email: jrothman@naminc.org