What’s “New at NAMI NH” Newsletter
August 2007
News to distribute and share with your groups and classes
Please share these updates with your support group and classes.
NAMI NH’s new strategic plan challenges us to increase our visibility to all NH communities. Within this newsletter and in future ones, we will focus on some new projects that will help to meet these challenges. I think you will find these projects echo your suggestions and requests.
- Family to Family Teacher Training - We have received a grant from NAMI National to provide the weekend training format and to increase the number of communities where we teach F2F.
- Legislative Forum Project
- Growing Membership and Increasing Referrals from Providers
Upcoming Events -
F2F Teacher Training - New Training Dates
November 2 - 4th at the Holiday Inn in Concord. Currently we only have 11 active teachers in the entire state. This is our opportunity to provide this important educational program to more families in more communities.
We need your help - please think about people who have been in your classes or groups that you think we should ask to get involved, just forward their names to me!
Fall Affiliate Leader and Teacher Semi-Annual Meeting -
Save the date - Saturday, September 29th at the New Hampshire Hospital Campus, conference room C. Details to follow.
Parents Meeting the Challenge Educational Program
Classes will start this fall in Piermont, Dover and Derry. This new program, replacing Visions for Tomorrow, is adapted from NAMI Maine - but born and bred in NH!!!
Details are on the NAMI NH website or contact Claudia Ferber at 225-5359 x 13. Please share this information with parents.
NAMI Walk for Recovery from Mental Illness and
Mental Illness Awareness Week October 7-14, 2007
Walk - Sunday October 7th 2:00 pm – New Hampshire Hospital soccer field. To register your team go to www.naminh.org, click on the link below the walk picture, then click on the yellow register or donate button. This takes you directly to the NH page on the NAMI National website where you can sign in and register your team. If you need walk flyers, posters and/or team captain information, please let me know and we will get them right to you.
Also, if your group would like a presentation on participating in the walk, just call or email me to set that up. acarbonneau@naminh.org
Save the date!!
Pete Earley Presentation - The author of “Crazy, A Father’s Journey Through America’s Mental Health Madness”.
Pete Earley will be speaking on Thursday, October 11th from 7-9 pm at the Concord Auditorium.
Pete Earley was cited by Washingtonian Magazine as one of a handful of journalists in America who "have the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency." He is the author of eight non-fiction books, including two national best sellers and three novels, and is a former reporter for The Washington Post. His books have sold more than one million copies worldwide.
“CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness”, which was one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction books, tells two stories. The first is about Mr. Earley’s struggles to get his college-aged son help after he is diagnosed with a mental illness. The second is an investigation of America’s mental health system based on nine months that Mr. Earley spent inside the psychiatric cellblocks at the Miami Dade County City Jail. He followed prisoners with mental illnesses through the justice system and back into the community, to observe how they were treated.
This presentation is free and open to the public.
Whats New?
Advocacy Project
- Do you have an interest in how your legislator votes?
- Would you like to share your story and important information about mental health with them?
- Do you have a morning to learn how to do this effectively?
- Are you willing to gather a few community leaders and NAMI NH members to talk with your legislator over breakfast or lunch?
If any of this interests you, you can be part of a new NAMI NH grassroots movement to educate legislators all around the state. If you think mental health services are inadequate, here is a chance to spend a few hours to make a huge difference.
Contact Annette for details!
Family to Family - Let your groups know these classes are starting!!
Family to Family - Fall 2007 Class Schedule
Manchester/Bedford - time and location to be determined, class will be taught this fall. To register or for more information contact Geri Foucher at 624-7849 or email DGTRVL1@comcast.net
Concord - Tuesday evenings 6:30 - 9 pm at the NAMI NH office, starting September 4 through November 20. To register contact Valerie Acres at 603-228-2370 x2 or email valerie@metrocast.net
Nashua - Monday evenings 6:30 - 9 pm at the First Church in Nashua, starting September 10th. To register contact Scott or Norma Smith at 882-6771
Don’t forget Family to Family teachers needed!!!
Again…
Support groups now have their own pages on the NAMI NH website.
If you would like help in creating your group’s page just contact me!
Thanks, Annette
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