Nami Tennessee

Nami Tennessee provides programs, training and leadership for grass-roots advocates that run our local affiliate groups. Volunteers in 19 local affiliates provide free education classes, facilitate support groups and drive advocacy efforts serving individuals with mental health conditions, their family members and the mental health professionals who serve them. Support: local affiliates provided over 250 peer-to-peer support groups with over 2,000 individuals participating. The Nami Tennessee helpline served thousands of diverse callers providing local, state, and national resources. Education: over 160 individuals participated in free care giver education classes (Nami family to family and Nami basics). - continued on schedule o

The crisis intervention team (cit) in Tennessee program is made possible with a federal grant award from the united states dept. Of justice (doj), office of justice programs (ojp) bureau of justice assistance (bja) through its justice and mental health collaboration program (jmhcp) and through the state of Tennessee via the Tennessee department of mental health and substance abuse services. The grant provides support to Nami Tennessee as a convenor to ensure that a cross-sector, inter-agency approach is taken to expanding cit across the state. This includes maintaining a quarterly statewide cit task force, hosting cit train the trainer trainings in each region and providing training to cit community coalitions. - continued on schedule o