Peer Education
Peer-to-Peer Educational Course is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery. This free course consists of nine two-hour units taught by a team of trained "Mentors" who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness.
Participants come away from the course with a binder of hand-out materials as well as many other tangible resources:
- an advance directive to specify treatment and and an advocate for your medical care
- a "relapse prevention plan" to help identify tell-tale feelings, thoughts, behavior and events that may warn of impending relapse, and to organize for intervention
- mindfulness excercises to help focus and calm thinking
- survival skills for working with providers and the general public
Additional peer educational recovery focused programs and are in development.
Volunteers are needed. If you are a peer stable in your recovery and interested in learning to co-lead a peer educational recovery program, or facilitating a peer support group, NAMI Maine will provide you with formal training, all course materials, and help you get started.
For more information contact Christine Canty Brooks at NAMI Maine at 1-800-464-5767, or email.
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