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For Consumers

• Connection Recovery Support Group
  a 90-minute weekly support group run by persons who live with mental illness for other persons with any diagnosis who also live with mental illness. 
• Peer-to-Peer
  a free course for consumers containing individual relapse prevention planning, a debriefing/storytelling week, and an advance directive for psychiatric care.
• In Our Own Voice
  a one-and-a-half hour interactive, multimedia presentation by consumers that offers hope and provides insight into the recovery now possible for people with mental illness.
• Healthy Hearts & Minds
  a multimedia program about healthy, accessible, and affordable lifestyle changes designed to reduce cardiac risk among people with mental illness.

For Families & Caregivers

• Family-to-Family
  a free 12-week course for family caregivers of individuals with severe mental illnesses that discusses the clinical treatment of these illnesses and teaches the knowledge and skills that family members need to cope more effectively.
• Healthy Hearts & Minds
  a multimedia program about healthy, accessible, and affordable lifestyle changes designed to reduce cardiac risk among people with mental illness.
• Family Support Group
  a 90 minute support group run by family members living with persons with a mental illness.

For the General Public

• In Our Own Voice
  a one-and-a-half hour interactive, multimedia presentation by consumers that offers hope and provides insight into the recovery now possible for people with mental illness.
• Parents and Teachers as Allies
  This two-hour in-service program focuses on helping school professionals and families within the school community better understand the early warning signs of mental illnesses in children and adolescents and how best to intervene so that youth with mental health treatment needs are linked with services. It also covers the lived experience of mental illnesses and how schools can best communicate with families about mental health related concerns.  
• Healthy Hearts & Minds
  a multimedia program about healthy, accessible, and affordable lifestyle changes designed to reduce cardiac risk among people with mental illness.

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