This email from National was received on Feb. 13, 2014. It contained 3 attachments which were updates for the F2F Trainer, Teacher and participant manuals. These updates can also be obtained by going to http://nami.org/eduhelpdesk
Please see email content below:
Greetings
NAMI Family-to-Family Program Directors & Coordinators:
As
those of you who also work with NAMI Basics know, Teri Brister and I got so
caught up in developing the NAMI Homefront program that we forgot to send you
all New Year’s Cheer and information about 2014 manual updates! Please
read on for news about NAMI Family-to-Family:
Meet
Suzanne Robinson
I
was NAMI Ohio’s Director of Programs for 14 years prior to joining the NAMI
Education team last August. I am now Senior Education Program Manager for
NAMI Family-to-Family and NAMI Homefront. I am still based in Ohio but I am
happy to assist you via email or telephone. I hope to see you at
Convention in September if not sooner!
Manual
Updates
The
long-delayed release of the 5th Edition of the Diagnostic
Statistical Manual (DSM-5) in May of 2013, necessitated updates to more
pages than we would normally have changed for 2014. Thankfully, many of
the updated pages are double-sided so the task of replacing pages, although
tedious, is far less expensive than replacing entire manuals. This is why the
NAMI manual format remains a loose-leaf binder rather than a bound book.
Barring any major updates in medication or research the next revision of NAMI
Family-to-Family is not scheduled until 2016.
NAMI
Store and Intranet
The
2014 versions of the manuals for all programs are now available in the NAMI
Store for hardcopy purchase or as PDF downloads (trainer manuals are only
available for hardcopy purchase), and you should have also gotten word that the
NAMI Store has gone through an upgrade and looks different, but your coupon
codes for the manuals will stay the same.
I’ve
attached the PDF files of the updated 2014 pages for the Participant, Teacher
and Trainer Manuals. Please make sure that your teachers and trainers
have these new page files to keep their manuals updated. The 2014 updates are
also available via this link: NAMI
Family-to-Family Intranet
To
get access to NAMI Signature Program intranets, send an email to NAMI Education
at namieducation@nami.org and include the
following:
1.
Name
2.
Affiliate
3.
Role
in affiliate
4.
NAMI
Username
5.
Email
(associated with NAMI account)
6.
Intranets
Requested
Charts
and Blue Card Sets – Minor Revisions Please Use What You Have!
The
charts and blue cards needed for NAMI Family-to-Family are also available for
purchase or download at the NAMI store. The chart updates involve a
corrected typo and the addition of logos. The revised blue cards have some
minor grammatical changes and are now single-sided so that they are easier to
download and copy. It is not necessary to replace blue cards or charts
unless they are worn or damaged. Older versions of both charts and blue
cards can be used in 2014 classes and trainings so there is no need to discard
what you may have in stock!
Re-Orientation
The
YouTube version of the re-orientation assessment is still posted online if you
have people that need access to it. Let me know if you would like me to send an
updated list of your state’s teachers and trainers who have completed the
process. The YouTube instructions are attached.
Please
contact me if you have questions and thanks for all you do!
Suzanne
