Offers several different mental health education programs. Family-To-Family: Provides a free, 12-week course for family caregivers of individuals with severe mental illness. The course is taught by trained family members. All instruction and course materials are free to class participants. Course includes: - Current information about schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder (manic depression), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, and co-occurring brain disorders and addictive disorders. - Up-to-date information about medications, side effects, and strategies for medication adherence. - Current research related to the biology of brain disorders and the evidence-based, most effective treatments to promote recovery. - Gaining sympathy by understanding the subjective, lived experience of a person with mental illness. - Learning in special workshops for problem solving, listening, and communication techniques. - Acquiring strategies for handling crises and relapse. - Focusing on care for the caregiver: coping with worry, stress, and emotional overload. - Guidance on location appropriate supports and services within the community. - Information on advocacy initiatives designed to improve and expand services. NAMI Basics: Provides an education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illness. Course is taught by trained teachers who are the parent or other caregiver of individual who developed the symptoms of mental illness prior to the age of 13 years. Course consists of 6 classes, each lasting 2 1/2 hours. Classes may be offered weekly for 6 consecutive weeks or may be offered twice per weeks for 3 weeks to accommodate individuals with busy schedules. All instruction materials are free to participants. Peer-To-Peer: Provides an experiential learning program for people with any serious illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery. Course includes: - Consists of 10 2-hour units and is taught by a team of two trained "Mentors" and a volunteer support person who are personally experienced at living with mental illness. - Mentors are trained in an intensive 3-day training session and are 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; and survival skills for working with providers and the general public. IOOV: Provides a public education program in which 2 trained consumer speakers share compelling personal stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery. This program is an opportunity for those who have struggled with mental illness to gain confidence and to share their individual experiences of recovery and transformation. Throughout the presentation, audience members are encouraged to offer feedback and ask questions. Audience participation is an important aspect of IOOV because the more the audience members become involved, the closer they come to understanding what it is like to live with a mental illness and stay in recovery. Presentations are given to consumer groups, students, law enforcement officials, educators, providers, faith community members, politicians, professionals, inmates, and interested civic groups. Hearts and Minds: Provides an online, interactive, educational initiative promoting the idea of wellness in both mind and body. Mental Health First Aid: Provides a public education program that helps the public identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Program is offered in 12-hour course that presents an overview of mental illness an