On Tuesday, August 7, from 6 – 7 pm, NAMI Western Carolina will hold an education program with speaker, Gabby Martino of Disability Rights NC. She will speak briefly on the Adult Care Home situation although she will not be able to get into legal specifics as she is not an attorney. She will also address legislative issues with regard to mental health services in NC.
The meeting will be held in Room 315, Conference Room, at 356 Biltmore Avenue.
2012-2013 NAMI Program Trainings Announced! Reserve your spot today!
August 17-19, 2012 – Peer to Peer Mentor Training
September 28-30, 2012 – Connection Facilitator Training
October 6-7, 2012 – In Our Own Voice Presenter Training
March 23, 2013 – Family to Family Refresher Retreat
April 5-7, 2013 – NAMI Basics Teacher & Family Support Group Facilitator Training
* All dates are tentative and training sites will be determined by area where most interest is received no later than 1 month before the training.
For applications and more info, go to www.naminc.org.
Speaker: Shilpa Reddy from Our Voice – providing victim advocacy, outreach, intervention, counseling, and education
Topic: Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships
First Presbyterian Church, Swannanoa
372 Bee Tree Road
Swannanoa, NC 28778
Wednesday, June 6, 5:30 PM
For more information, call 828-686-3140
Elizabeth Burgess, Training Specialist for Western Highlands Network, has generously offered to hold a “Hearing Voices Training” for NAMI WC. The two-hour class allows you to have the experience of trying to do everyday tasks or play a game while wearing earbuds and listening to voices talk to you, perhaps give you orders, in the way that some people with a mental health problem hear voices. The training will give you a first-hand understanding of how distracting and difficult it can be to focus on the things you need to do. No negative messages will be given.
This training is part of Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) which educates police officers and first-responders on how to work with those with mental health issues when they receive a 9-1-1 call.
Class is limited to ten people. A date will not be set for the free training until we see how much interest there is. Elizabeth is available in the evenings or on Saturdays. For more information or to register call us at 505-7353 or email namiwnc@yahoo.com. Use the phrase “Voices” in the subject line.
On October 25, 2011 a very special event will take place here in Asheville. We invite you to join us.
Tracey Turner, NAMI Western Carolina board member, will present THE EMOTION PROJECT. Here is Tracey’s own description of the Project:
“It is a powerful, dimensional presentation, often causing tears and, almost always, causing the audience to reflect on their own emotions and circumstances in their lives.
I give a talk about my history with alcoholism and mental illness, how the two intertwine and how they have impacted success and dire failure in my life. I then move on to individual stuffed and embellished bears which represent a specific emotion, expressed entirely as mine but leaving and encouraging room for the audience’s interpretation of their reflected emotions. The bears are not teddy bears but rage, joy, grief, self love and other emotions. There are 32 bears in the Project. In the end, it is a story of more success than failure. Maintained mental health versus untreated mental illness. It is a story of recovery.”
Tracey has presented at NAMI North Carolina, the National Crisis Intervention Training Conference (CIT), local colleges and at various NAMI affiliates.
Comments:
“Not only do I identify with my son’s emotions and have a more intense understanding, I discovered some of my emotions. Your presentation is dynamic!” – NAMI member and parent of a child with mental illness
“I consider The Emotion Project to be one of the most powerful presentations on any subject I’ve ever attended. In fact, I was so impressed that, in my capacity as director of communications at A-B Tech, I arranged for her to present it at our college. Like Tracey’s, my connection to mental illness is a long-standing and personal one. In 1986, my brother, then 22, committed suicide after suffering from schizophrenia for six years. Those six years were among the most traumatic of my life, and although it makes me ashamed to admit, among the times when I have shown the least understanding to another human being. How I could have benefited from the insight I gained through Tracey’s presentation!” Mona Cornwell
Please join us on Tuesday, October 25 , 6 – 7 pm at the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s (MAHEC) new facility at 121 Hendersonville Road behind the Doubletree Hotel and TGIF’s. Requested donation: $10. A light buffet will follow. For more details, call 828-505-7353, email namiwnc@yahoo.com or go to The Emotion Project website at www.theemotionproject.org.