NAMI Peer-to-Peer Recovery Education Course

Ticket To Work and Self-Sufficiency Program

Warm-Line: Consumer to Consumer (en español)

Assistance with Getting Health Care

Peer-to-Peer Recovery Education Course

Peer-to-Peer is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery. The course was written by Kathryn Cohan McNulty, a person with a psychiatric disability who is also a former provider and manager in the mental health field and a longtime mutual support group member and facilitator. An advisory board comprised of consumer members of NAMI, in consultation with Joyce Burland, Ph.D., author of the successful NAMI Family-to-Family Course, guided the curriculum's development.

Mentors are trained in weekend-long training sessions and supplied with teaching manuals. Participants come away from the course with a binder of hand-out materials, as well as many other tangible resources:

• An advance directive
• A "relapse prevention plan" to help identify tell-tale feelings, thoughts, behavior or events that may warn of impending relapse and to organize for intervention
• Mindfulness exercises to help focus and calm thinking
• Survival skills for working with providers and the general public.

Each class contains a combination of lecture and interactive exercise material and closes with Mindfulness Practice (techniques offered to develop and expand awareness). Each class builds on the one before: attendance each week, therefore, is required.

The Peer-to-Peer Recovery Education Course topics include:

• Stigma and discrimination
• Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression: Thoughts, Feelings, Sleep
• Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Senses, Behavior
• Story Telling
• Language and emotions
• Addictions, spirituality, medication
• Coping strategies and decision making
• Relationships
• Empowerment, Advocacy

For information about future classes please contact the NMMI office at (760) 722-3754 or e-mail namincsd@pacbell.net. (Click here to see our most current schedule of classes.)

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Ticket To Work and Self-Sufficiency Program
The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is a national disability employment initiative available in California this year. This Program will provide over 930,000 people in California, who receive SSI and/or SSDI, the services and supports they need to go to work. Individuals who meet eligibility criteria for the Program will receive a “Ticket” from the Social Security Administration (SSA). Individuals who wish to use their Tickets will contact approved provider organizations—Employment Networks (Ens)—for a variety of employment-related support services, training, jobs and job retention needs.

To assist with the Program and the application process, visit theTicket to Work Program at www.yourtickettowork.com or your local Social Security Administration office.

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Warm-Line: Consumer to Consumer
Funded by the County of San Diego HHSA
1-800-930-WARM (9276)
Lonely? Anxious? Panic Stricken? Need to talk? Need a referral? Depressed?

Call us. We are fellow consumers of mental health services who have been there, done that. Listening and talking are what we like to do.
5 pm to 11 pm, 7 days a week. 1 800 930-9276

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Warm-Line: Consumidor a Consumidor
Patrocinado por el Condado de San Diego HHSA
1-800-930-9276
¿Se siente solo? ¿Ansioso? ¿Ataques de panico? ¿Necesite Hablar? ¿Necesita alguna referencia? ¿Deprimido?

Hablenos. Somos consumidores para el programa de servicios de salud mental. Entendemos. Hablenos si necesita alguien con quien hablar.

Consumer Center for Health Education and Advocacy
1-877-734-3258 Toll Free
Do You Need Help Getting Health Care? Services provided for FREE.

If you are having problems getting into a program, the CCHEA may be able to help. CCHEA can help if

• You’ve been told you can’t join a program
• It’s taking too long to get in.

After you are in a program, you might need help getting benefits or services. CCHEA can help if:

• You have problems getting medical care or medicines.
• You are worried about the quality of care.
• You are unhappy with service (how people are treating you).

Our health system is hard to use and understand. The Consumer Center was started to help people get the health care they need.

CCHEC can help you:

• Learn about your health care choices
• Solve problems getting into a health care program.
• Solve problems with services after you are in a program.

There are many programs for people who don’t have health insurance. CCHEC can help you learn about:

Learn about your health care choices

Solve problems getting into a health care program.

Solve problems with services after you are in a program.

There are many programs for people who don’t have health insurance.

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