Provider Program is a ten-week course for mental health professionals of public and private agencies who work directly with individuals suffering from severe and persistent brain disorders. Trained NAMI IOWA volunteer family members, consumers and mental health professionals teach as a team each three-hour session.
The course reflects a new knowledge base – the “lived experiences” of coping with a brain disorder or caring for someone who struggles with this life-long challenge.
The course helps providers realize the hardships that families and consumers endure and appreciate the courage and persistence it takes to find ways to reconstruct lives which must be lived, through no fault of the consumer or family. It adds a means of teaching the emotional aspects and practical consequences of these illnesses to the academic medical information in the course.
There is a fee for this training.
“I can’t say enough about the Provider Education program. When I went through the course, I kept thinking ‘what a wonderful experience that all our staff need to have.’”
- Provider graduate
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