Parents & Teachers As Allies • About

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.

Parents & Teachers As Allies • Participant Comments

• This was very informative! I would love for you to come and speak at a staff meeting st my school. Hearing the personal experience of these individuals is the perspecitve that needs to be heard!! Thank you.
• Powerful, brave presentation.
• This the most valuable in-service program I have attended in 20 years. It was valuable professionally and personally.
• This was excellent! Having staff who have family members with mental illness share their stories was very effective. Please thank them for thier willingness to be honest and vulnerable.
• This has been one of the most informative, practical and inspiring presentations I have heard of late. Thank you for sharing your life journey.
• Administrators of schools need to attend [this presentation].
• Excellent
• The NAMI booklet gives a clear / concise list of symptoms and interventions for numerous disorders, this is a great resource.
• Each speaker offered a powerful view and insight into mental illness and our call as professionals to better understand, recognize, and advocate for individuals and families...