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NAMI In Our Own Voice: Living with Mental Illness Panel Discussion Participants: Carole Ballard, ADAMHSCC Ellen Riehm, NAMI of Greater Cleveland Lisa Marie Griffin, NAMI IOOV Presenter Karen Curlis, NAMI IOOV Presenter
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NAMI In Our Own Voice: Living with Mental Illness. Panel Discussion Participants: Carole Ballard, ADAMHSCC Ellen Riehm, NAMI of Greater Cleveland Lisa Marie Griffin, NAMI IOOV Presenter Karen Curlis, NAMI IOOV Presenter. In Our Own Voice: The What. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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NAMIIn Our Own Voice:
Living with Mental Illness
Panel Discussion Participants:Carole Ballard, ADAMHSCC
Ellen Riehm, NAMI of Greater ClevelandLisa Marie Griffin, NAMI IOOV Presenter
Karen Curlis, NAMI IOOV Presenter
In Our Own Voice: The WhatO IOOV was introduced in 1996 as
Living with Schizophrenia and the name was later changed to In Our Own Voice.
O The program is now active in 44 states and there have been over 500,000 audience members reached through this training model.
In Our Own Voice: CIT Introduction
O Law enforcement officers are introduced to IOOV on the first day of CIT training.
O Officers learn from consumers with mental illness up front about the stages of recovery.
O Officers have an opportunity to interact and engage with consumers in recovery and not through a crisis.
In Our Own VoiceO IOOV was introduced to the Crisis
Intervention Team training in Cleveland in 2008.
O Since that time, IOOV was presented about 24 times reaching 720 law enforcement officers.
In Our Own Voice: O In Our Own Voice (IOOV) is a unique
education program developed by NAMI, in which two trained peer speakers share compelling personal stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery. The presentation is divided into 5 segments Dark Days Acceptance Treatment Coping Tips Successes, Hopes and Dreams
In Our Own Voice: Dark Days
O Speakers explore feelings and experiences that occurred during their darkest moments of living with mental illness.
O Benefit to CIT Training-police encounter the mentally ill during their dark days. This segment helps officers see the “why” of how these days came and the outcome.
In Our Own Voice: Acceptance
O Speakers explain their personal experience of how they learned to accept the reality of having a mental illness.
O Benefit to CIT Training: Officers learn that recovery is possible with acceptance.
In Our Own Voice: Treatment
O Speakers explore what treatment milieus worked for them and why.
O Benefit to CIT Training: Officers learn that treatment for mental illness involves other milieus such as counseling, etc.
In Our Own Voice: Coping Strategies
O Speakers share their personal coping strategies and wellness.
O Benefit to CIT Training: Officers learn that there are a broad variety of coping strategies other than just taking medication.
In Our Own Voice: Successes, Hopes and Dreams
O Speakers share the outcome of setting goals while pursuing personal dreams.
O Benefit to CIT Training: Officers learn that consumers have short term and long term dreams and outcomes for themselves.
In Our Own Voice: The ValueO IOOV sets the tone for the CIT week
by introducing officers to consumers as educators to the learning process.
O IOOV also provides law enforcement officers with an interactive dialogue with consumers.
In Our Own Voice:O “The information provided was very useful. I can apply these
techniques on my job as a Police Dispatcher as well as any personal contact that I may have with someone suffering from mental illness. The presenters were great!
O “Good Informative Presentation, nice to have actual people speak on their experiences”
O “All officers should attend”
O “It showed the other side of mental illness.”
In Our Own Voice: Questions?
Interested in bringing IOOV to your CIT training ?
Go to NAMI.org to find your state
NAMI office and contact them.Or email: [email protected]
