NAMI Peer-to-Peer program is a free, 10-week peer-led recovery education course open to any person with a serious mental illness.  Peer-to-Peer emphasizes recovery from mental illness as a feasible, supportable goal and challenges the prejudges surrounding these illnesses.

• 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 Burlance, 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.
  

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What does the course include?

• ​Peer-to-Peer consists of ten two-hour units and is taught by a team of two trained "Mentors" and a volunteer support person who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness.
• Mentors are trained in an intensive three day training session and are 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.
  

Programs

Currently NAMI Mobile does not offer this course.  Please check back as we hope to make it available in 2020

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