Sponsored by:
Georgia DHR
MHDDAD Division |
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Peer-to-Peer: NAMI's Recovery Curriculum |
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What is NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer Program?
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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. |
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The course was
written by Kathryn Cohan McNulty, 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. |
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An advisory board
comprised of NAMI consumer members, in consultation with Joyce Burland,
Ph.D., author of the successful NAMI Family-to-Family Education
program, helped guide the curriculum’s development |
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Since 2005, NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer Recovery
Program has been supported by AstraZeneca.
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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. |
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What people
have to say about
Peer-to-Peer
"Peer-to-Peer teaches in nine weeks what it took me 20 years to
figure out for myself." --
CA
"Very powerful message. I am impressed with entire curriculum. A
LOT of different tools for recovery were part of the class,
allowing for CHOICE."
-- IA
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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. |
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