Tools for Education Program Volunteers

Need class materials? Click on the items listed below to print or download pdf versions of class related forms. Contact Roger Stewart rstewart@namitn.org for additional information or materials.

Basics

Screening Form
Use this tool to help you conduct a phone interview to determine if a potential student is appropriate for your class and to gather information that will help you customize your presentation to focus on specific issues that class members are facing. Required information to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

Sample Student Letter
This sample letter is provided as a model that you may choose to use to confirm specific details of the class with your students.

Pre Evaluation
This form is found in Workshop 1 of the student manual. It is presented here so you can be sure the version you present your students is the most current version. It can also be downloaded if you don’t have enough Pre Evaluations available. Required information to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

Sample Letter to Speaker
NAMI Basics offer the option of having an expert as guest speaker in the final Workshop. This sample letter is provided as a model you can choose to use to confirm specific details that have been arranged with the guest speaker.

Refreshments Sign-Up
NAMI Basics offers this form that you can choose to use to keep track of volunteers who wish to help by bringing refreshments to the class.

Class Attendance Forms
Sign in sheets to help you track student attendance. There is a separate form designated for each Workshop presented. These completed forms are required to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

Class Seating Chart
A teaching tool that allows you to keep track of who is sitting where in your classroom without having to find their name tags.

CHILD CARE

Guidelines for Providing Child Care

The (almost) complete guide to providing childcare for your class including protocols, payment rates, suggestions, warnings, Incident Report Form and much, much more!

Incident Reporting Form

Grandma always said, "Plan for the worst and hope for the best. " A downloadable MS Word document form used to report emergency incidents (situations where people are physically, emotionally, or mentally harmed). Instructions for this form are included in the Guidelines for Providing Child Care.

Child Care Forms
Use these forms if you are providing child care for your class. Forms include Childcare Consent and Release. Childcare Attendance Form and Childcare Provider Reimbursement. Below are descriptions of the form. All three forms are contained in one PDF file that can be accessed by clicking the "Child Care Forms" link above.

NOTE: These completed forms are required to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

Child Care Consent and Release Form
This is a legal document designed to protect NAMI Tennessee, the local affiliate and NAMI volunteers. This form must be signed by the adult participating in the NAMI class for each child they place in our care. It is not necessary to have one form per child. Multiple children associated with a single guardian can be listed on a single form. Every child we provide care for must be listed on one of these forms with the signature of their parent or the guardian they are in the care of.

Child Care Attendance Form
This document is a attendance roll of all children that we provide care for. Every child we provide care form must be listed on this form. Use this form every time child care is provided.

Child Care or Training Reimbursement Form
This form must be completed by the childcare provider and a class teacher each time childcare is provided. The childcare provider completes the top portion of the form down to Meeting Site/ Training Name. The class teacher completes the Other Expenses portion by documenting the type of class, class number, class location, and the amount of payment agreed upon. The child care provider completes the document with their signature as requestor.

Program Course Evaluation
This form is supplied by NAMI National as a portion of the national evaluation of the program. These forms will be gathered at NAMI Tennessee and sent in to the director of the Basics program. These completed forms are required to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

Post Evaluation
This form is found in Workshop 6 of the student manual. It is presented here so you can be sure the version your students complete is the most current version. It can also be downloaded if you don’t have enough Pre-Needs Assessments available. This completed form is required to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

Teacher Evaluation
A tool to help you report the final census of your class. This completed form is required to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

Final Census
A tool to help you report the final census of your class. This completed form is required to be submitted for affiliate reimbursement.

PROMOTING YOUR CLASS

Class Posters
Posters you can order to help you advertise your class, support group, or education meeting. They are free, and work well on bulletin boards in churches, libraries, grocery stores and other public places. The white space allows you to highlight your local affiliate and contact information (click on examples below).

Contact Roger Stewart, rstewart@namitn.org to order.

Press Releases
Word documents you can download and customize for your community newspaper to help promote your class.