Sharing your story - media opportunity

From: Emily Cepla [mailto:ecepla@nami.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 5:41 AM
To: caac
Subject: MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES: Help Needed

                            

MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES:  Help Needed

NAMI has received several new requests from national reporters looking for personal stories. They want to talk with individuals or families about bad experiences with barriers or gaps in the mental health care system---and stories in which a person finally got help and what made the difference.

In general, requests involve:

·       Families

·       Children, teens or young adults

·       Veterans

·       Emergency rooms and hospitals

·       Outpatient services

·       Affordability, insurance or other funding issues

·       Criminal justice issues—particularly jails

·       Homelessness; housing

·       Employment

If you are interested in possibly sharing a story, please send a short summary to yourstory@nami.org. Please include your age, city, and state and telephone contact information.

·       NAMI may not be able to acknowledge every submission, but every story will be considered

·       Submitting a story does not commit you to being interviewed by the news media

·       Names and contact information will not be shared with any reporter until NAMI contacts you first and you give permission

·       Ultimately, it’s a reporter’s decision whether to contact a person for an interview. If an interview does not result, NAMI will still keep your story for other opportunities.

Please let us know if you are interested in telling your story to the news media. Please also forward this appeal to anyone else who might be interested.  Many thanks for your help!

Bob Carolla

Director of Media Relations

National Alliance on Mental Illness ( NAMI)

3803 North Fairfax Drive

Arlington, VA 22205

(703) 516-7963

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Emily Cepla, MPH

Program Manager, Child and Adolescent Action Center

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

3803 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 100

Arlington, VA 22203

Direct Line: (703) 600-1107

ecepla@nami.org

www.nami.org

Statewide Family Network Technical Assistance Center

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www.nami.org/itstime

Multicultural Networking Group Conference Call

As received from NAMI National.

You can also belong to this group by contact Lynda Cortes at  lcortes@nami.org

Dear Multicultural Networking Group members,

Thank you to all of those who confirmed availability and provided input for our March 26 call with NAMI’s new Executive Director, Mary Giliberti.

Below are the four priority topics we will discuss based on the rankings you provided:

1.     Overall strategic vision to make NAMI more diverse and inclusive.

2.     Cultural adaptation and translation of education and support group programs.

3.     NAMI's diversity and inclusion priorities.

4.     Need for additional support for multicultural leaders and efforts at the local level.

While we had planned to schedule brief comments from group representatives, survey results showed that this was not the best use of your time.

Next Steps:

·        Please submit via email questions you may have related to each of these topic areas. Note that we are looking for very concrete and specific questions related to diversity and inclusion issues. The more specific we are the better answers we can expect to receive.

·        We will share your questions with Mary in advance so that she can plan how to better address as many as possible during the call.

Agenda:

1.     Introduction and housekeeping.

2.     Mary’s opening remarks (overall plan and vision).

3.     Q & A based on questions sent before the day of the call around each of the identified priority areas:

·        Overall strategic vision to make NAMI more diverse and inclusive.

·        Cultural adaptation and translation of education and support group programs.

·        NAMI's diversity and inclusion priorities.

·        Need for additional support for multicultural leaders and efforts at the local level.

4.     Lines open for additional comments and questions from the group.

Date and time:

·        Wednesday, March 26

·        3:00 p.m. ET, 2:00 p.m. CT, 1:00 p.m. MT, 12:00 p.m. PT 

Call-in information:

1-888-858-6021
Pass code 868887 then press #

Respectfully submitted (03/06/14) by Lynda Cortes, program manager, NAMI Multicultural Action Center   

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Attention Basics Trainers and Teachers - Ask the Dr. Call March 21

Children’s Ask the Doctor Call

Save the Date: March 21^st, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. PST

Topic: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and adolescents with Pat Harvey and Britt Rathbone

Pat and Britt will be discussing DBT as it relates to adolescents and their parents. They will present a very brief overview of the modes of DBT and the DBT dialectic of Acceptance and Change. They will then discuss the philosophy behind the acceptance of problematic behaviors as a way to respond to pain as a way for parents to understand problematic behaviors in a non-judgmental, non-blaming way. They will finish up with a discussion of how parents can utilize the dialectic of acceptance and change in their interactions with teens through validation and observing limits.

Please also find the attached worksheet which will be discussed on the call.

Friday children’s conference calls with Dr. Ken Duckworth, NAMI’s medical director and a child and adolescent psychiatrist, take place on the third Friday of every month. The calls are toll free and are scheduled from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. E.T. Contact Lynn Cathy at lynn.cathy@namicalifornia.org

for the phone number and the code. 

We hope that you will join us!

Best,

Emily

Back by Popular Demand - The NAMI Education News site

From: Colleen Duewel [mailto:CDuewel@nami.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 11:26 AM
Cc: education; stated
Subject: NAMI Education Newsletter

Dear NAMI State Organization Executive Directors and Program Directors,

Back by popular demand….the NAMI Education News site! You can find links directly to this newsletter on www.nami.org/helpdesk  and http://extranet.nami.org/Data.

When prompted for a password – use ‘nami’ (without quotes).

We have placed some of the most popular resources on this news page such as:

–       Updates about manuals

–       How to list your programs online at nami.org

–       Training of Trainers registration information

–       Customizable 1-page program fliers

–       Staff contacts …and more!

Once you have a chance to look at it, please let us know what you like and what suggestions you have.

IMPORTANT: Please share this link and access with your NAMI Affiliates.  This is designed to be a tool for the NAMI State Organizations, NAMI Affiliates and program leaders, so please share this email directly.  

Hope you enjoy this resource,

Colleen

Colleen Duewel, MPH

National Director

NAMI Education, Training and Peer Support Center

Phone: 703-516-7961

Fax: 703-516-0694

Email: cduewel@nami.org

Website: www.nami.org/programs

3803 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100

Arlington, VA 22203-1701

Need to Report Data?  Please follow this link: www.nami.org/programdata