Family to Family Education Program

Sponsored by NAMI Ohio; Funded by the ADAMH Board of Fairfield County

Mike and Eve Hush, Trainers

GENERAL INFORMATION

Free Education and Support for Families who have relatives with Serious Mental Illness

The Family to Family Education Program is a series of 12 weekly classes structured to help family members understand and support their ill relatives while maintaining their own well being.  The course is taught by a team of trained volunteer family members who know what it is like to have a loved one with a serious mental illness in the family.  There is no cost to participate in this program but registration is required. Classes limited to 24 persons.  Over 30,000 family members in the US and Canada have completed this course.  We think you will be pleased by how much assistance the program offers.

Classes start Thursday, August 30, 2007
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Coonpath Road just east of Rt. 33

COURSE TOPICS

Course Topics include:

1. Family responses to the trauma of mental illness
2.  Schizophrenia, major depression and mania: Diagnosis and dealing with critical periods
3.  Depression and bipolar subtypes; panic disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD); Borderline personality disorder;
    Co-occurring brain and addictive disorders
4. The biology of the brain:  emerging scientific discoveries
5. Problem solving workshop
6. Medication review
7. Understanding the inner experience of having a mental illness
8.  Communication skills workshop
9. Self-care; relative group testimony
10. Rehabilitation, services available
11.  Advocacy; fighting stigma
12.  Celebration and certification ceremony

FAQ's

CONTACT INFORMATION

For more information or to register:  mhush@insight.rr.com

LINKS

NAMI Ohio; Ohio's voice on Mental Illness