NAMI staff and trained speakers provide informative, powerful and hopeful presentations to community groups, businesses and organizations to help break down stigma and enrich audiences' understanding of the impact of mental illnesses. These presentations can help individuals navigate, understand and live with these challenges.
Is your business, organization, or school looking for education on mental health or mental illness? For more information, contact Megan Zimmerman. To schedule a presentation, click the "Outreach Request Form" button and complete the form.
Community Presentations
30-45 minutes
What will be covered:
- Brief overview of NAMI as a national organization
- Overview of current outreach, education & support programs specific to NAMI Fox Valley
- Overview of Iris Place, our state-funded Peer-Run Respite Center
60-75 minutes
What will be covered:
- Definition of mental health vs mental health condition
- Warning signs of a mental health condition
- Warning signs of a person experiencing a mental health crisis and tips on how to verbally de-escalate
- The impact (including statistics) of mental health conditions
- Treatment options and barriers to receiving help
- Definition of recovery
- Resources for crisis & support
90-120 minutes
What will be covered:
- Risk factors that may lead to a mental health-related crisis
- Warning signs that someone is experiencing a mental health-related crisis
- Tips on how to effectively de-escalate someone experiencing a mental health-related crisis
- How to respond when a mental health crisis includes suicidality
- The role of a CIT police officer
- How to prepare for a future mental health-related crisis (crisis intervention planning)
60-75 minutes
What will be covered:
- Definition of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- How trauma affects the developing brain
- Signs that an individual may have experienced childhood trauma
- The original ACE study and how it was replicated in Wisconsin
- Definition of resilience and how to promote resilience in our youth
- This training would be most appropriate for staff who work with youth
75 minutes
Presentation Learning Objectives:
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- Understand the importance of early treatment for a mental health condition
- Recognize when a family member displays warning signs of a mental health condition
- Increased comfortability in having a conversation with a family member regarding their mental wellbeing
- Increased comfortability in ability to provide mental health resources/supports to a family member
75 minutes
Presentation Learning Objectives:
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- Understand the importance of early treatment for a mental health condition
- Recognize when a student displays warning signs of a mental health condition
- Increased comfortability in having a conversation with a student and their family regarding the student’s mental wellbeing
- Increased comfortability in providing mental health resources/supports to a student and their family
30-60 minutes
NAMI Fox Valley recognizes that personal story sharing is not only a way to break the stigma that surrounds mental health conditions, but also a way to instill hope in others. A NAMI Talks Testimonial presentation provides an invaluable opportunity to hear first-hand from a peer or a loved one on their unique experience navigating a mental health condition.
60-75 minutes
What will be covered:
- How untreated mental illness and stress can impact an employee, including relevant statistics
- Warning signs of a mental health condition, particularly those experienced in the workplace
- Benefits of addressing mental health in the workplace
- Strategies to address stress in the workplace
- Actions steps to promote mental well-being as an employer, a supervisor, a coworker, and within yourself
60 minutes
Presentation Learning Objectives:
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- Understand which mental health conditions are most common in older adults
- Identify at least one warning sign of a mental health condition
- Recognize the importance of treatment services & healthy coping strategies for an older adult living with a mental health condition
- Increased understanding of the programs/services provided by NAMI Fox Valley
60-minutes
What will be covered:
- Warning signs of someone experiencing challenges with their mental well-being
- Tips on how to prepare for a conversation regarding someone’s mental well-being
- Best practices for having a conversation with someone regarding their mental well-being (opening lines, what to do/what not to do during the conversation, follow-up after the conversation)
- Resources for support
- Definition of compassion fatigue & how to build compassion resilience
60 minutes
What will be covered:
- Important definitions and language to be used when addressing suicide
- Prevalence of suicide (including local statistics)
- Risk and protective factors for suicide
- What to look for (warning signs) in someone who may be actively considered suicide
- How to respond to someone who is in a suicidal crisis
- Current crisis resources