NAMI Missouri's Consumer Programs

• Peer-to-Peer: A nine week experiential education course for persons with a severe mental illness who are in recovery. NAMI Missouri has 51 trained consumer teachers who co-teach about 3 classes a year.
• NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group: NAMO Missouri is one of the pilot states for this consumer support group program. Groups meet weekly and are led by a team of trained peers. Each group also has a volunteer support person. One training session has been held for teams and currently 7 groups are meeting in Missouri.
• In Our Own Voice: A recovery education presentation given by trained consumer presenters who tell their stories of recovery. Presentations can be given to any organization or group that requests speakers, and who want to learn about mental illness from a consumer's perspective. NAMI Missouri has 48 trained presenters.

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• Peer-to-Peer
  a free course for consumers containing individual relapse prevention planning, a debriefing/storytelling week, and an advance directive for psychiatric care.
• NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group
  a 90-minute weekly support group run by persons who live with mental illness for other persons with any diagnosis who also live with mental illness. 
• Hearts & Minds
  a multimedia program about healthy, accessible, and affordable lifestyle changes designed to reduce cardiac risk among people with mental illness.
• In Our Own Voice
  a one-and-a-half hour interactive, multimedia presentation by consumers that offers hope and provides insight into the recovery now possible for people with mental illness.