Nami National

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Apr 22, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$11,804,765

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Education, Training and Peer Support Programs: NAMI offers an array of peer education and training programs and services for consumers, family members, providers, and the general public. NAMI's education and support programs provide relevant information, valuable insight, and the opportunity to engage in support networks. These programs draw on the lived experience of mental health consumers and family members who have learned to live well with their illnesses and have been extensively trained to help others, as well as the expertise of mental heath professionals and educators.Family-to-Family is a free, 12-week course for families, partners and friends of individuals with serious mental illness taught by more than 3,500 trained NAMI family members and caregivers of individuals living with mental illness. The course dwells on the emotional responses families have to the trauma of mental illness; many family members describe their experience in the program as life-changing. NAMI Family Support Group Program is a free, monthly meeting of caregivers of individuals with a mental illness where family members can talk frankly about their challenges and help one another through their learned wisdom. These meetings are facilitated by trained NAMI members in affiliates across the country, and participants are encouraged to share actively in the work of the group.NAMI Basics is a free, six-week, peer-directed education program developed specifically for parents and other family caregivers of children and adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a serious mental illness/serious emotional disturbance or who are experiencing symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed.Peer-to-Peer 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 stigma often wrongly associated with mental illness.NAMI Connection is a free, weekly, 90-minute recovery support group for people living with mental illness where people learn from one anothers experiences, share coping strategies and offer mutual encouragement and understanding. The groups provide an ongoing opportunity to discuss the challenges of living with mental illness and the techniques for maintaining wellness. All groups are facilitated by peers living in recovery.In Our Own Voice is a unique public education presentation that offers insight into the hope and recovery possible for people living with mental illness. Trained individuals living with mental illness lead a brief, yet comprehensive and interactive, presentation about mental illness.The NAMI Provider Education Program offers 30 hours of in-service training to line staff at public mental health agencies, taught by a trained five member team of family members, individuals living with mental illness and a mental health provider who is either a family member or individual living with mental illness

Activity 3

Policy/Advocacy: NAMI is recognized as the preeminent voice on Capitol Hill and in state houses across the country for the millions of Americans living with serious mental illness. NAMI advocates have fought for policy changes that raise the bar on mental illness care and promote treatment and research on par with other illnesses. NAMI's advocacy provides a unique voice for people who live with mental illness and their families in state and federal public and private-sector policies that facilitate research, end discrimination, reduce barriers to successful life in the community and promote timely, comprehensive and effective mental health services and supports. NAMI National and NAMI grassroots leaders work steadily to influence critical national policy debates as they unfold. The NAMI Policy Team provides advocacy and resources for the NAMI grassroots on a wide range of federal and state policy and legal issues impacting people living with serious mental illnesses and their families. Child and Adolescent Action Center works with families who have children and adolescents experiencing mental illnesses. The Multicultural Action Center works to bring education on mental illness and support to diverse and underserved communities.

Filer

EIN

43-1201653