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NAMI Georgia & The Atlanta VAMC

NAMI Georgia & The Atlanta VAMC. Increased Partnership Through our extended Memorandum of Understanding. How it began. 2007 Contacts at VA in Trauma Recovery Program (TRP) who were linked to CIT Presentation to TRP & books left to review Determined may be best to start in outpatient MH

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NAMI Georgia & The Atlanta VAMC

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  1. NAMI Georgia & The Atlanta VAMC Increased Partnership Through our extended Memorandum of Understanding

  2. How it began • 2007 • Contacts at VA in Trauma Recovery Program (TRP) who were linked to CIT • Presentation to TRP & books left to review • Determined may be best to start in outpatient MH • Contact made with Ms. Tucker • 2008 • 1st F2F class held in January 2008- (2 teachers came out of this class) • October 2008 Local Recovery Coordinator started. • LRC’s in VISN shared MOU information. Atlanta was the pilot site for Georgia. • Contact made with Jean at NAMI November 2008.

  3. January 2009 • 2nd F2F class held. • Monday night 5:30. • Got a lot of interest and folks to register, but not enough to come consistently to the class. • Ran through mid-February and stopped due to not enough participants. • Lessons learned: • Mondays aren’t best due to too many holidays. • 5:30 isn't late enough for our family members to get through Atlanta traffic. • Other days considered: Weds (but may be church nights for folks, no interest in Thurs/Friday due to end of week) leaves us Tuesday.

  4. May 2009-August 2009 • Mass advertising campaign started at VA to get the word out. • LRC had Medical Media create color posters and flyers. • LRC distributed throughout MH, VA information desks, almost wherever a flyer could go.  • LRC emailed information about the upcoming class to the MH service line staff several times. • LRC managed roster for class (registering folks, giving directions, etc). • NAMI found facilitators for the class (Jean stepped in herself to ensure its success- *Thank you!*) • Significant turnout (~25 registered for class) • Many vets themselves asking to attend (we’ll address in a few slides)

  5. September 2009-November 2009 3rd F2F class held • Great success • Family members wanted group to continue on. • Wondered about possibility of Family Support Group. • Began to brainstorm how to get approval- follow up on idea of a local MOU.

  6. NAMI Georgia/ Atlanta VAMC MOU • Need Peer Support- NAMI offers Peer-to-Peer & Connection • What a great resource! • How do we get those going here? • March 2009- legal contacted about how do we add additional groups from an outside agency? • June 2009- During the advertising campaign for F2F, many Veterans noted that they would also like to attend a similar group. The need for NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer and Connections groups became apparent.

  7. Extended MOU between NAMI GA & Atlanta VA • Talked about possibilities • Drafted an extended MOU based off the original one. • Worked with leadership (MHSL chief, compliance, public affairs) to create this extension. • When completed, signed by NAMI Georgia Executive Director and Director of the Atlanta VAMC.

  8. Since then… • It has been so helpful to have the MOU in place. • We’ve had 2 presentations of In Our Own Voice with interest to have more. • We currently have another Family-to-Family class going (midway though & getting great feedback) that began in September 2010. • We’ve also started NAMI Peer-to-Peer and Connection groups through connection to our PRRC.

  9. Thank you!

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