Affiliate Training Library
Welcome to the Affiliate Training Library. While this project is in progress, we will be launching new videos periodically. If you have any questions regarding the video content, please refer to the contact provided at the end of the video.
NAMI CA Programs
Training Procedures
National Training of Trainers
The National Training of Trainers is a training hosted by NAMI National to train individuals in becoming State Trainers. In this video, you will lean the full process of how to recommend a program leader to participate as well as the full process that a participant will go through.
Training of Trainers Procedures for Affiliates
NAMI CA State Trainings
NAMI CA State Trainings are trainings hosted by NAMI California or a local NAMI Affiliate to train individuals in the community who meet the requirements to become a program leader for their local NAMI Affiliate. In this video, you will learn…
- What is a NAMI state training,
- Eligibility requirements for participating in a state training
- How you can recommend a NAMI member to participate
- The differences between a NAMI California state training and a NAMI affiliate state training
- How to host a state training as an affiliate
- NAMI store procedures
- Post training procedures
Resources:
- How to Recommend Someone for Training in the NAMI Education Portal (pages 6-9):
- Step-by-step directions to submit program leaders for training in the NAMI Education Portal
- Education Portal & LearnDash Problems – 3-6-2023
- NAMI CA State Training Calendar Survey.
- NAMI CA Training webpage
- Affiliate webpage (code: localnami)
NAMI CA Program Procedures
NAMI On Campus High School
NAMI On Campus High School (NCHS) Clubs are student-led clubs that raise mental health awareness and reduce stigma on campus through peer-led activities and education. Student Leaders will be empowered with toolkits, materials, templates, and resources to make running the club a fun and educational process. The Club is open to all students – those with mental health conditions, those with family members with a condition, or students who are interested in the field or in advocacy. In this video, you will learn…
Tips for Facilitating NAMI Programming Online
Taming the Technology
This video shows you step-by-step how to handle some of the more common technology and production issues that you may encounter while offering your traditional in-person NAMI programming via online platforms. It also demonstrates some basic functions of the Zoom video conferencing platform.
Leading NAMI Online Programming Effectively
This video explains the skills needed to effectively deliver NAMI programming online. It discusses some of the differences between leading programs in person verses the online environment and offers program leaders tips for using video conferencing technology with confidence.
Handling Emergencies in Online NAMI Programming
This video define what is, and is not, an emergency during online NAMI programming and provides the appropriate steps to respond to an emergency.
Handling Disruptive Behavior in Online NAMI Programming
This video defines three types of disruptive behaviors that can occur during NAMI online programming and provides program leaders with effective responses for each type of disruption.
Practicing Self-Care
This video offers online NAMI program leaders tips for practicing self-care.
Coming Soon
NAMI Mental Health 101
Mental Health 101 is a program devoted to giving individuals an opportunity to learn about mental illness through an informative presentation, short video, and personal testimonies that represent a variety of cultures, beliefs, and values.
Video in progress.
NAMI Family to Family
Family to Family is a free, 8-week course for families, partners and friends of individuals with serious mental illness taught by more than 3,500 trained NAMI family members and caregivers of individuals living with mental illness.
NAMI Peer to Peer
Peer to Peer is a free, 8-week, peer-led, recovery education course open to any person with serious mental illness.
NAMI Family Support Group
NAMI Family Support Group Program is a free 90 minute monthly meeting of family and loved ones of individuals with mental illness where family members can talk frankly about their challenges and help one another through their wisdom gained by experience and self-education.
NAMI Connection
NAMI Connection is a free, weekly 90-minute recovery support group for people living with mental illness where people learn from one another’s experience, share coping strategies and offer mutual encouragement and understanding.
NAMI Basics
NAMI Basics is a free, 6-week, peer-directed education program developed specifically for parents and other family caregivers of children and adolescents who have either been diagnosed with serious mental illness/serious emotional disturbance or are experiencing symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed.
Video in progress.
NAMI Provider Education Program
NAMI Provider Education Program is a free 5-session course for mental health workers and professionals. Through the course providers learn what it is like to live with mental illness from the individual and family perspective.
NAMI Homefront
NAMI Homefront is a class for families, caregivers and friends of military service members and veterans with mental health conditions. The course is designed specifically to help these families understand those challenges and improve their ability to support their service member or veteran.
NAMI Hearts + Minds
NAMI Hearts+Minds is a program that educates and empowers individuals to better manage their health, mentally and physically. This free education program is available as a full one-day session, or as a multi-session course.
NAMI In Our Own Voice
In Our Own Voice is a unique public education program in which two trained speakers share compelling personal stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery.
NAMI Ending the Silence
Ending the Silence is a free, 50-minute presentation designed to give students, staff, and or families an opportunity to learn about mental illness through an informative PowerPoint and short videos.
NAMI Smarts for Advocacy
NAMI Smarts for Advocacy is a hands-on advocacy training program that helps people living with mental illness, friends and family transform their passion and lived experience into skillful grassroots advocacy.
NAMI Sharing Your Story with Law Enforcement
NAMI Sharing Your Story with Law Enforcement (SYSLE) is a presentation program that prepares individuals and family members to share their stories of lived experience with mental illness to a law enforcement audience, such as during Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training, or other events where mental illness and related topics are featured.
NAMI 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.
NAMI Sharing Hope/Compartiendo Esperanza
NAMI Sharing Hope and NAMI Compartiendo Esperanza are three-part video series programs that explores the journey of mental wellness in Black communities and Latinx communities through dialogue, storytelling and a guided discussion.