NAMI Provider Education

• Mental illness touches almost everyone’s life in some way.

• More than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness.*

• 43.8 million adults experience mental illness in a given year.

• People living with mental illness have historically been negatively a˜ected by stigma and bias in the health care system in the U.S. For many of those people, interactions with health care providers can be a negative — or even traumatic — experience.*

• Provider bias, both conscious and unconscious, and a lack of empathy can result in misdiagnosis and inadequate treatment.* This can lead to mistrust of health care professionals and ultimately result in people choosing to forego accessing care altogether.*

• As the family unit plays a critical role for people with mental illness, it is important for health care providers to positively engage with not only the person with mental illness but also their family in various ways.*

• Providers’ interactions with people can either exacerbate or alleviate existing internalized stigma.*

A mental health professional with personal experience with mental illness An person living well in mental illness recovery

A family member of someone with mental illness What Makes NAMI Provider Unique?

• Lived experience of mental illness paired with an evidence-based curriculum •

A combination of the recovery and medical models for empathetic, compassionate mental illness treatment •

Deeper insights into person and family perspectives • A challenge for participants to reexamine how they think about mental illness

Register for ZOOM event

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d0DbZDaMSNOUfhOYhiDsHw

There are 5 modules to this course

Feb 7th 2:30 - 5pm - 1 module

Feb 8th 12-5 pm - 2 modules

Feb 14th 12-5 pm - 2 modules

This course is for those living in the Southern California area

Host or Publisher NAMI Mt San Jacinto