Home Education Programs

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NAMI Educational Programs:

Education Meetings: Guest Speakers are community experts who speak about a wide range of mental health topics.
First Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Location: The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, 5771 Roosevelt Blvd., Clearwater, FL 33760

• Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training is a 40-hour education program designed to educate law enforcement officers about mental illness. Call the NAMI Help Line at 727-791-3434.
• Family-to-Family is a twelve-week course for family and friends of individuals with mental illness, to assist them in care giving, coping and problem-solving.
  Pre-Registration is required. Contact Marianne Martin 727-443-3149
  Email:memartin1943@yahoo.com Or call NAMI Help-Line:  727-791-3434

• Peer-to-Peer is a nine-week course for people with mental illness, to assist them in understanding brain disorders, symptom management, relapse prevention, coping skills, and advance directives.
  Pre-Registration is required. Contact Steven Thompson at 727-443-4715.
  Email: sthompson134@tampabay.rr.com . Or call NAMI Help-Line: 727-791-3434..

• Breaking the Silence is an educational package designed to teach students on three grade levels, upper elementary, middle school, and high school about serious mental illness.

Our free Peer-to-Peer, Family-to-Family, and CIT trainings are typically held twice a year – spring and fall. New classes are announced in our bi-monthly newsletter. Breaking the Silence is held throughout the school year in Pinellas County schools. For more information about these programs, please contact Gay Hawk at 727-479-3254.

USEFUL AND INFORMATIVE LINKS:

DIRECTIONS TO MEETINGS

Peer-to-Peer Information on Google Video   WATCH THIS!

St. Petersburg Times: Officers Get Inside View of Mental Illness

2008 CIT Conference

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