NAMI Oklahoma | Education

Family-to-Family is a twelve-week course for family and friends of individuals with serious mental illnesses that helps participants gain a greater understanding of mental illness, cope better with a loved one’s illness, and become a leader in the health care and political systems to obtain better treatment and services. In the last four years, NAMI Oklahoma has trained over eight hundred (800) participants in Family-to-Family statewide.
In Our Own Voice: Living with Mental Illness (IOOV) is an anti-discrimination education program in which trained presenters living with mental illnesses talk to diverse audiences about their experience and recovery. This program puts a very real human face on mental illness. It builds new self-confidence for the presenters and provides a sense of mission that helps to further empower the reality of recovery. NAMI Oklahoma was the first in the nation to train veterans in the IOOV program.
NAMI on Campus is a student-run, student-based organization that provides mental health support, education, and advocacy in a university or college setting. With the leadership of college students, the group is designed to engage and educate campus communities about an issue that merits serious attention--mental illness. Through social support and education, student groups can help save lives and prevent mental illness.
Family Support Group is a facilitator training for family members who are interested in offering a support group in their community. This support group provides an opportunity for family members to share the challenges and successes of coping with mental illness from a family member’s perspective. This training equips the participant with the essential skills need to successfully facilitate a support group. This is for family members and friends only!
Consumer & Family Leadership Academy is a program for consumers (individuals with mental illness) and/or family members of individuals with a mental health or addiction disorder. This program teaches individuals how to advocate for themselves or their loved ones. NAMI Oklahoma will offer free leadership training workshops in five Oklahoma counties--Oklahoma, Tulsa, Washington, Payne, Carter. Individuals who reside in these counties can become Leadership Trainers and provide trainings in their own respective communities. These trainings can be held anywhere in the community.
NAMI Connection is a consumer‐led group that meets once a week for 90 minutes. This support group offers a structured group process designed to encourage, support and empower consumers. Connection support groups are open to consumers with any diagnosis.
NAMI Basics is a new NAMI national signature education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illness. This six-session course is taught by trained teachers who are also parents/caregivers of individuals who developed the symptoms of mental illness in childhood. The course provides the fundamentals a caregiver needs to care for themselves, their family, and their child who is living with a mental illness.
Parents & Teachers as Allies is a two-hour in-service program that helps school professionals identify the early warning signs of early-onset mental illnesses in children and adolescents in schools. It focuses on the specific, age-related symptoms of mental illnesses in youth, how best to intervene, and shares the lived experiences of consumers and families.
Peer Recovery Support Specialist is a 40-hour one-week training program which focuses on building peer leadership throughout the state. The core curriculum of this training highlights the importance of wellness and recovery through the active efforts and involvements of trained peer leaders.

NAMI Oklahoma Education Programs