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Family-to-Family Education Program:
This 12 week course is for families and friends of individuals with brain disorders called mental illness. The course is taught by trained family members who have lived the experiences of those taking the course. Many family members describe the impact of this program as life changing. Join the thousands of families just like yours who have gained information, insight, understanding and empowerment. 
Contact: Jonah Deppe nami.nebraska@nami.org  877-463-6264

Course topics include:

1) Family responses to the trauma of mental illness

2) Schizophrenia, major depression andmania: diagnosis and dealing with critical periods

3) The biology of the brain: emerging scientific discoveries

4) Depression and bipolar subtypes; panic disorder; obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); borderline personality disorder; co-occurring brain and addictive disorders

5) Problem solving workshop

6) Medication review

7)Understanding the inner experience of having a mental illness

8) Communication skills workshop

9) Self-care; relative group testimony

10) Rehabilitation, services available

11) Advocacy: fighting stigma

12) Celebration and certification ceremony

Family to Family Education Classes:

Classes start February 5, 2009 provided by telehealth
7:00-9:30 pm

Broken Bow
Jennie Melham Memorial Hospital
145 Memorial Drive

Holdrege 
Phelps Memorial Hospital
1215 Tibbals

Kearney
Good Samaritan Hospital 
10 East 31 Street (31st & Central)


Click these links for downloadable forms
Family to Family Registration .PDF
Family to Family Registration .DOC

Related Files

Family To Family Registration (Word Document)
Family To Family Registration PDF (PDF File)

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