Archives: Courses

  • HelpLine Training

    HelpLine Training

    Course Description NAMI HelpLine Training lays a solid foundation for NAMI volunteers and staff. It was created by the NAMI National HelpLine and is used by its staff and volunteers. The training covers NAMI’s history, organization, programs, and mental health conditions and treatments. In addition, communication basics, best practices in managing HelpLine connections, and the…

  • Training of Trainers: Peer-to-Peer Modules

    Welcome to Training of Trainers! If you’ve joined us before for this pre-training, you may notice that the first three modules show your progress and answers from the last TT you attended. These load up because we want to save your progress. Please launch the module and review it as much as you need. Once…

  • Training of Trainers: Homefront Modules

    Welcome to Training of Trainers! If you’ve joined us before for this pre-training, you may notice that the first three modules show your progress and answers from the last TT you attended. These load up because we want to save your progress. Please launch the module and review it as much as you need. Once…

  • Training of Trainers: Basics Modules

    Welcome to Training of Trainers! If you’ve joined us before for this pre-training, you may notice that the first three modules show your progress and answers from the last TT you attended. These load up because we want to save your progress. Please launch the module and review it as much as you need. Once…

  • Training of Trainers: In Our Own Voice Modules

    Welcome to Training of Trainers! If you’ve joined us before for this pre-training, you may notice that the first three modules show your progress and answers from the last TT you attended. These load up because we want to save your progress. Please launch the module and review it as much as you need. Once…

  • Training of Trainers: Family-to-Family Modules

    Welcome to Training of Trainers! If you’ve joined us before for this pre-training, you may notice that the first three modules show your progress and answers from the last TT you attended. These load up because we want to save your progress. Please launch the module and review it as much as you need. Once…

  • Training of Trainers: Family Support Group Modules

    Welcome to Training of Trainers! If you’ve joined us before for this pre-training, you may notice that the first three modules show your progress and answers from the last TT you attended. These load up because we want to save your progress. Please launch the module and review it as much as you need. Once…

  • Training of Trainers: Connection Candidate Modules

    Welcome to Training of Trainers! If you’ve joined us before for this pre-training, you may notice that the first three modules show your progress and answers from the last TT you attended. These load up because we want to save your progress. Please launch the module and review it as much as you need. Once…

  • Provider Reorientation

    Course description This refresher course is for individuals who have been trained as presenters for NAMI Provider. Many NSO/NA have presenters who were trained pre-covid and have not had the opportunity to utilize training in actual presentations either in person or virtually. Who’s this course for? This course is for currently trained and certified NAMI…

  • Telling Your Story for Family and Friends

    NAMI Family & Friends is a 4-hour seminar that informs and supports people who have loved ones with a mental health condition. Participants learn about diagnoses, treatment, recovery, communication strategies, crisis preparation and NAMI resources. Seminar leaders have personal experience with mental health conditions in their families.

  • Sharing Your Story with Law Enforcement

    Course description The NAMI Sharing Your Story with Law Enforcement presentation program trains peers and families to share their stories during law enforcement trainings, such as Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training.

  • Family to Family Program Leader Reorientation

    Course description NAMI Family-to-Family is a class for families, significant others and friends of people with mental health conditions. Designated as an evidence-based program by SAMHSA, it facilitates a better understanding of mental health conditions, increases coping skills and empowers participants to become advocates for their family members.

  • Peer-to-Peer Leader and Trainer Review

    Course description This training is designed as an update from the 2015 Peer-to-Peer course to the 2018 Peer-to-Peer course. It is intended to be used by those who’ve already completed the Peer-to-Peer training. NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a class for adults with mental health conditions. The course is designed to encourage growth, healing and recovery among…

  • Family and Friends Program Leader Training

    Course description NAMI Family & Friends is a 4-hour seminar that informs and supports people who have loved ones with a mental health condition. Participants learn about diagnoses, treatment, recovery, communication strategies, crisis preparation and NAMI resources. Seminar leaders have personal experience with mental health conditions in their families.

  • Sharing Your Story with Law Enforcement: Trainer

    Welcome to the Trainer’s Prep for Sharing Your Story with Law Enforcement. To get ready to lead a coaching session, please review the online course. It is not necessary to fully complete each module by developing a presentation draft, however please carefully review each module and watch each video. The information in the course will…

  • Peer-to-Peer Program Leader Training

    Course description This course is designed to train Program Leaders who will be leading the Peer-to-Peer course. NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a class for adults with mental health conditions. The course is designed to encourage growth, healing and recovery among participants. This program is also available in Spanish, De Persona a Persona de NAMI.

  • In Our Own Voice

    Course description NAMI In Our Own Voice presentations change attitudes, assumptions and ideas about people with mental health conditions. These free, 40-, 60- or 90-minute presentations provide a personal perspective of mental health conditions, as leaders with lived experience talk openly about what it’s like to have a mental health condition.

  • Family-to-Family Program Leader Training

    Course description NAMI Family-to-Family is a class for families, significant others and friends of people with mental health conditions. Designated as an evidence-based program by SAMHSA, it facilitates a better understanding of mental health conditions, increases coping skills and empowers participants to become advocates for their family members. Also available in Spanish, De Familia a…

  • Family-to-Family State Trainer Reorientation

    Where’s my course? Update on NAMI Family-to-Family Leader Reorientation The 2020 and the 2022 NAMI Family-to-Family Reorientation Powerpoint videos have been removed from our learning systems. Both are now accessible via NAMINet under the NAMI Family-to-Family Teacher link.The 2022 Trainer, Leader and Participant manuals replaced the 2020 version December 2022. It is highly recommended that…

  • Ending the Silence – Presenter Training – Young Adult

    Course description NAMI Ending the Silence is a presentation designed for middle and high school students, school staff, and parents or guardians of middle or high school aged youth. Audiences learn about the signs and symptoms of mental health conditions, how to recognize the early warning signs and the importance of acknowledging those warning signs.