What Your Audience Will Get

• Free of cost to schools and communities

• NAMI Ending the Silence for Students: 50-minute presentation designed for middle and high school students that includes warning signs, facts and statistics and how to get help for themselves or a friend. Research has shown that NAMI Ending the Silence for Students is effective in changing middle and high school students’ knowledge and attitudes toward mental health conditions and toward seeking help

• NAMI Ending the Silence for School Staff: 1-hour presentation for school staff members that includes information about warning signs, facts and statistics, how to approach students and how to work with families

• NAMI Ending the Silence for Families: 1-hour presentation for adults with middle or high school aged youth that includes warning signs, facts and statistics, how to talk with your child and how to work with school staff

 

The Rappahannock NAMI affiliate is pleased and proud to be offering this program.  It serves Caroline, Fredericksburg, King George, Stafford, and Spotsylvania.  It has multiple local young adults and other presenters who have been trained, practiced and supplied with videos and handouts.  They want to help and avoid suffering and tragedies.  They know that youth tend to listen more fully to their peers