Nami National

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

May 14, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$11,465,309

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Education, Training and Peer Support Programs: NAMI offers an array of courses for family members of people living with mental illness as well as for individuals living with mental illness themselves. NAMI's peer education and training programs provide relevant information, valuable insight and the opportunity to engage in support networks. NAMI Family-to-Family is a free, 12-session course for families, partners and friends of individuals with serious mental illness taught by more than 3,500 trained NAMI family members and other 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. This program is also available in Spanish, NAMI De Familia a Familia.NAMI Parents and Teachers As Allies is a free two-hour, in-service program that helps school professionals better understand the early warning signs of emotional and behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents. It helps with understanding how best to intervene so that youth with mental health treatment needs are linked with services. This program is also available in Spanish, NAMI Padres y Maestros como Aliados.NAMI Family Support Group is a free, 90-minute peer-led support group for families, partners and friends of individuals with mental illness. Family support group participants can talk frankly about their challenges and help one another through their learned wisdom.NAMI Basics is a free, six-session, peer-directed education program developed specifically for parents and other family caregivers of children and adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a serious emotional disturbance or who are experiencing symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed. This program is also available in Spanish, Bases y Fundamentos de NAMI. The first NAMI Basics class using the Spanish curriculum was taught in NAMI New Jersey in June 2012.NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a free, 10-session, peer-led, recovery education course open to any person with a serious mental illness. NAMI Peer-to-Peer emphasizes recovery from mental illness as a feasible, supportable goal and challenges the stigma often wrongly associated with mental illness. This program is also available in Spanish, NAMI Persona a Persona. NAMI's Peer-to-Peer program celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2012 holding approximately 200 classes with over 2,100 participants.NAMI Connection is a free, weekly, 90-minute recovery support group for individuals living with mental illness where people learn from one another's 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. This program is also available in Spanish, Conexion NAMI.NAMI In Our Own Voice is a free, 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. This program is also available in Spanish, NAMI En Nuestra Propia Voz.NAMI Provider Education offers 15 hours of in-service training to front line personel at 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. In 2012, NAMI partnered with Army OneSource (AOS) to provide a free nationally accredited five-course online training program, Treating the Invisible Wounds of War, designed for NAMI Family-to-Family teachers, NAMI leaders, behavioral health professionals or others who come in direct contact with Service members and their families through the course of their wo

Activity 3

Policy/Advocacy: NAMI is recognized as the preeminent voice on Capital Hill and State Houses across the country advocating on behalf those living with mental illness and their families. NAMI's advocacy efforts have focused on policies that facilitate research, end discrimination and promote an effective mental health system. The NAMI Policy Team provides support and resources for NAMI affiliates on a wide range of federal and state policy and legal issues impacting people living with mental illness. NAMI's Child and Adolescent Action Center works with families with children experiencing mental illness. The Multicultural Action Center works to bring education on mental illness and support to diverse and underserved communities. In 2012, NAMI released a special report Parity for Patriots: The Mental Health Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans and their Families which called for Purple Heart medals to be awarded for psychological wounds like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and for military commanders to be accountable for suicide prevention and elimination of stigma.

Filer

EIN

43-1201653