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NAMI-CT Training:
Parents and Teachers as Allies responds to the recommendation included in Goal 4 of President Bush’s New Freedom Commission Report on Mental Health that call for schools to play a larger role in the early identification of mental disorders in children and linking them to appropriate services.
Goal: To help mainstream school teachers better understand the early warning signs of mental health treatment needs in children and adolescents and how best to intervene so that youth with treatment needs are linked with services.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS WHO MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
1. Willing to deliver a two-hour in-service presentation for mainstream teachers as a member of a team of volunteer presenters who share their experiences.
2. An education professional (preferably a teacher who has a child with behavioral health issues)
3. A facilitator (an experienced Family to Family presenter)
4. The parent of a child living with a mental illness
5. A person who struggled with mental illness as a young person
Training will take place on Saturday, October 13th, 2007 at:
The Lyceum Resource & Conference
227 Lawrence St, Hartford CT 06106
Directions will be sent
Pre-registration is required
For more information contact:
Paloma Dee
Child & Adolescent Program Coordinator at:
800 215-3021
childandadolescent@namict.org
NAMI-Fairfield Involvement:
PARENTS AND TEACHERS AS ALLIES, a team of trained presenters, went on the road on April 5th, 2007. The team met for two hours with a group of administrators at the Fairfield Public School System and presented our educational program to raise awareness about mental health issues and school aged children. This was given on behalf of the AGM Fund. We have been invited back to make a yearly presentation to teachers for continuing education units, one school at a time
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