Want to give your professional staff the opportunity to learn more about living with the effects of mental illness? NAMI Tennessee is happy to work with you to provide a presentation to meet those needs. NAMI presenters can provide their unique stories and perspectives as persons living with a diagnosis of mental illness, as family care providers of adults, or as care providers of children. Presentations can run from 45 minutes to multiple hours. Subjects may include:
- An Overview of NAMI and NAMI Programs
- In Our Own Voice: What it’s Like to Live With Mental Illness
- The Family Perspective of Living With Mental Illness
- Overview of Mental Illnesses, Symptoms, and Coping Skills
- Building Recovery and Resiliency
- Mental Illness in Families of Faith
- Clients or People? Working with Individuals with Mental Illness and Family Members
- Co-Occurring Disorders: Overlapping Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
- Police Training
- Supporting Co-Workers When Mental Illness Strikes
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- “Create Your Own” Presentation (Design a mental health seminar from 1 to 4 hours)
Schedule your presentation for corporations, faith-based groups, police departments, civic clubs, medical practices, school teachers & other organizations and groups. [Request a presentation]