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Peer-to-Peer: NAMI's Recovery Curriculum
What is NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer Program?
Peer-to-Peer is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who
are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery.
The course was written by Kathryn Cohan McNulty, a person with a psychiatric disability who is also a
former provider and manager in the mental health field and a longtime mutual support group member
and facilitator.
An advisory board comprised of NAMI consumer members, in consultation with Joyce Burland, Ph.D.,
author of the successful NAMI Family-to-Family Education program, helped guide the curriculum’s
development.
Since 2005, NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer Recovery Program has been supported by AstraZeneca.
What does the course include?
Peer-to-Peer consists of ten two-hour units and is taught by a team of two trained “Mentors” and a
volunteer support person who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness.
Mentors are trained in an intensive three 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.
P2P Contact Information: For more information about local classes, complete the form below.
Click here to find more information on the NAMI.org web site
NAMI Office: 800-950-6264 or 703-524-7600
What is NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer Program?
Peer-to-Peer is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who
are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery.
The course was written by Kathryn Cohan McNulty, a person with a psychiatric disability who is also a
former provider and manager in the mental health field and a longtime mutual support group member
and facilitator.
An advisory board comprised of NAMI consumer members, in consultation with Joyce Burland, Ph.D.,
author of the successful NAMI Family-to-Family Education program, helped guide the curriculum’s
development.
Since 2005, NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer Recovery Program has been supported by AstraZeneca.
What does the course include?
Peer-to-Peer consists of ten two-hour units and is taught by a team of two trained “Mentors” and a
volunteer support person who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness.
Mentors are trained in an intensive three 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.
P2P Contact Information: For more information about local classes, complete the form below.
Click here to find more information on the NAMI.org web site
NAMI Office: 800-950-6264 or 703-524-7600