NAMI California's 2012 Annual Conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Irvine, California on Friday August 17th & Saturday August 18th. We are accepting applications for workshops through May 1. This year's theme is "All of Us Together: Advocacy in Action".

 

All applications must be submitted with this attached form.

 

Please include a brief biographical sketch of each presenter, along with the title and proposed objective for your workshop. The may be up to a total of four presenters per workshop. You are responsible for your own LCD projectors; TVs and VCRs may be rented at the hotel.

 

Completed forms must be received by May 1, 2012.

Fax or email them to:

 

NAMI California

Attn: Nikki Townsend

nikki.townsend@namicalifornia.org 

(916) 567-0163 office   (916) 567-1757 fax

 

New! BASICS TRAIN THE TRAINER WORKSHOP

Where: Ontario, CA

When: June 1-3, 2012

Cost: Lodging, Training, Materials, and Meals free to trainees

Requirements: Must have taught one Basics course to be eligible

NAMI membership must be current.

Contact: Lynn Cathy, Director of Family Programs

Lynn.Cathy@namicalifornia.org  

916-647-6931 (After May 1st call 916-567-0163)

 

New! Family to Family Training in Southern California

Where: Camarillo, CA

Who: Hosted by NAMI Ventura/Sponsored by NAMI California

When:  June 8th - 10th, 2012.

Cost: Lodging, Training and Materials are free to trainees.

Meal costs included except for Saturday night dinner.

(Cost to be determined.) Transportation not covered.

Requirements: Graduate of 12 week class strongly preferred. NAMI membership required.

Contact: Chris Novak, NAMI Ventura

Email: namiventura@gmail.com  

Phone: 805-641-2426

Or contact Lynn Cathy, Director of Family Programs at:

Lynn.Cathy@namicalifornia.org.  

 

Hall of Fame

Attention Family to Family Teachers, Support Group facilitators, State Trainers:

If you have taught 10 or more classes, 10 or more trainings or have led groups for 5 years or longer you are eligible to be in the Hall of Fame. 

 

Contact Lynn Cathy for more information.

From Psychiatric Newsby Aaron Levin.

Primary care clinicians may need more training to spot potentially suicidal troops during routine medical visits.

About 45 percent of military service members who died by suicide visited outpatient medical clinics in the 30 days prior to their deaths, according to Department of Defense researchers.

Even higher percentages of cases of self-inflicted injury (73 percent) or likely self-harm (76 percent) sought medical care in the month before the event, according to a team from the National Center for Telehealth and Technology of the Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury in Tacoma, Wash.

Read the full story.

Please join CMH for a series of webinars outlining best practices, models and strategies for developing and implementing wellness centers and peer-driven programs in small counties on April 27 and May 18. The first two seminars in the series have been completed. 

 

Webinar 3: Employees with Lived Experience within County Systems

(Facilitator and presenter - Anne MacRae; additional presentations by invited speakers):
Models of employment, Supervision versus mentoring, Employment evaluations

Date: Friday, April 27

Time: 9:30-11:00 am

 

Webinar 4: Sustainability and Funding Streams

(Facilitator: Anne MacRae)

Funding and Sustainability, Outcome measures, Closure and Action Plan: Where do we go from here?

Date: Friday, May 18

Time: 9:30-11:00 am

 

Reserve your Webinar seats now.

 

Click here to register for the entire series. 

or register for individual sessions:   

 

Webinar #3, April 27:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/662991592

 

Webinar #4, May 18:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/371038289

 

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

 

For more information, contact:

Shoshana Zatz

Associate II

California Institute for Mental Health

2125 19th Street, 2nd Floor

Sacramento, CA 95818

(916) 556-3480, ext. 141 (office)

(530) 219-0862 (cell)

 

szatz@cimh.org   

www.cimh.org 

From The Sacramento Bee by By Melinda Henneberger

 

Between Civil War battles in early 1864, Clara Barton was stuck in Washington, D.C., with time on her hands. She was mentally exhausted by physical inactivity during a winter pause on the front, and frustrated that her latest effort to open a new warehouse for supplies hadn't panned out.

 

"I am depressed and feel dissatisfied with myself," she wrote in fine, tiny script in diaries now stored on microfilm in the Library of Congress. With so little to do, she paradoxically couldn't rest, and so "rose not refreshed, but cold and languid." For neither the first nor last time, she considered suicide.

 

"All the world appears selfish and treacherous," she wrote on April 14. "I can get no hold on a good noble sentiment any where. I have scanned over and over the whole moral horizon and it is all dark. The night clouds seem to have shut down - so stagnant, so dead, so selfish, so calculating. ... Shall the world move on in all this weight of dead, morbid meanness?"

 

A few days later, she fantasized again about killing herself. But then, as Elizabeth Brown Pryor wrote in her 1987 biography, "Clara Barton: Professional Angel," the self-made philanthropist's "dejection was lifted finally by her only true remedy - a need for her services."

The California Youth Empowerment Network (CAYEN) is looking for motivated, passionate, and dedicated Transition Age Youth (TAY) ages 16-25 to join our dynamic Steering Committee and create real change at the state level!

 

This is a fantastic opportunity for TAY working in the mental health field as TAY Peer Mentors/Advocate, and other young people interested in mental health programs, systems, and policy.

 

The Steering Committee functions as CAYEN's board, and consists of 20 TAY from across the state.  As a Steering Committee member they will gain valuable skills while making a real difference in California Mental Health policy.  

 

Visit CA-YEN.ORG to apply before April 23rd. 

"A Spectrum of Solutions"
Presented by Mental Health Association of Orange County with Orange County Health Care Agency, Behavioral Health Services Prevention and Intervention Division Orange Police Department

 

Thursday, May 3, 2012

 

Anaheim, CA 92802

 

Objectives: To bring together the full spectrum of the "mental health community" of Orange County,

to raise awareness, learn skills, increase cultural sensitivity, network, reduce stigma,

share information and resources, strengthen existing relationships, develop new alliances,

improve patient care, and quality of life for persons impacted by mental illness

 

Who Should Attend: Mental health professionals, community agency staff, consumers and families, school personnel, religious leaders, volunteers, community advocates, private practitioners,

law enforcement, emergency medical personnel, public health providers, elected officials, and all!

 

Features:

Showcase of community resources

Networking luncheon

Keynote Presentation

22 workshops to update your knowledge and skills

CE Hours approved for workshops designated **

P.O.S.T. (pending approval)  

 

Click here for full information packet and schedule.