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NAMI’s
Peer-to-Peer Recovery Education Course
Peer-to-Peer
Mentors
Peer-to-Peer is a unique, experiential learning program
for people with any serious mental illness who are interested
in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery.
The course is being written by Kathryn Cohan, a person
with a psychiatric disability who is also a former provider
and manager in the mental health field and a longtime
mutual support group member and facilitator. An advisory
board comprised of consumer members of NAMI, in consultation
with Joyce Burland, Ph.D., author of the successful NAMI
Family-to-Family Education Program, is guiding the curriculum’s
development.
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Peer-to-Peer consists of nine, two-hour units and is
taught by a team of three trained "mentors"
who are personally experienced at living well with mental
illness.
- Mentors
are trained in weekend-long training sessions, supplied
with teaching manuals and are paid a stipend for each
course they teach.
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Participants come away from the course with a binder
of hand-out materials, as well as many other tangible
resources: an advance directive; a "relapse prevention
plan" to help identify tell-tale feelings, thoughts,
behavior or events that may warn of impending relapse
and to organize for intervention; mindfulness exercises
to help focus and calm thinking; and survival skills
for working with providers and the general public.
Class
Topic List:
Each
class contains a combination of lecture and interactive
exercise material and closes with Mindfulness Practice
(techniques offered to develop and expand awareness).
Each class builds on the one before: attendance each week,
therefore, is required.
Week
One
Introductions, Stigma, Discrimination, Begin Relapse Prevention
Planning
Week Two
Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression Thoughts,
Feelings, Sleep, Continue Relapse Prevention Planning
Week Three
Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Senses,
Behavior, Continue Relapse Prevention Planning
Week Four
Story Telling
Week Five
Language, Emotions, Continue Relapse Prevention Planning
Week Six
Addictions, Spirituality, Medication, Complete Relapse
Prevention Plans
Week Seven
Coping Strategies, Decision Making
Week Eight
Relationships, Begin Advance Directive
Week Nine
Empowerment, Advocacy, "Complete" Advance Directive
Evaluation
Peer-to-Peer
is offered through our NAMI-NYC Metro affiliate located
in Manhattan.
If you live in the NYC area and are interested in participating
in this program,
please contact the NAMI-NYC Metro office at (212) 684-3264.
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