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NAMI Montgomery County offers a variety of FREE psychoeducation courses to caregivers, consumers, and other community members.

Family to Family...

The Family to Family Education Course is for families of people who have or exhibit behavior suggesting schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, borderline personality disorder and major depression. It is appropriate for parents, siblings, adult children, spouses and significant others and is not appropriate for the diagnosed individual him/herself.

Peer-to-Peer...

The Peer-to-Peer Recovery Education Program is a ten-week course for any person with mental illness interested in maintaining wellness. Typically, three Peer Mentors, trained as educators, facilitate each course. Peer-to-Peer balances basic recovery education with relapse prevention planning, and discussion of important topics such as relationships, spirituality, addictions, staying safe, coping skills, and decision making. Major mental illnesses are covered, and participants are given a chance to begin an Advance Care Directive in Psychiatric Care. Stress reduction and mindfulness techniques are also included at the end of each session.

Parents and Teachers as Allies...

NAMI offers presentations about mental illness in children and adolescents to parents, teachers and other school staff through the Parents and Teachers as Allies program. This effort is a collaboration among NAMI, the Montgomery County Public School system and other nonprofit mental health organizations. It focuses on training parents and school staff to identify the signs of mental illness in children and refer children and their families for appropriate mental health services and work with the school system to improve communication about mental health issues to families.

In Our Own Voice...

This program is a recovery-education program given by trained consumer presenters for other consumers, family members, friends, and professional and lay audiences. This brief yet comprehensive presentation includes video, personal testimony and discussion aimed at enriching the audience's understanding of how people with these serious disorders cope with the reality of their illnesses while recovering and reclaiming productive lives. Let us bring this educational program to your office, church group, community or civic group.