For those attending, here is an outline guide to the workshop tracks at the NAMI California annual conference this weekend in Newport Beach

Advocacy

• Stopping Restraint & Seclusion in Schools: For My Child & All Children
• Coming Out Proud to Erase the Stigma of Mental Illness
• On the Job with a Mental Illness: What Are My Rights?
• Changing Policy, Saving Lives: School Suicide Prevention Policies

Criminal Justice

• Verbal De-Escalation: Performance and Skills are the Mosaic Art of CIT
• Building a Reformed Criminal Justice System: The Sequential Intercept Model
• The Crisis Intervention Team, A Community Partnership
• How to Break into Prison

Engaging Diverse Communities

• Reducing Mental Health Disparities in Your Community – A Way Forward
• From Me to You to Us: Mental Health Education in All Communities
• Take One Day at a Time
• Community-Defined Solutions for Latino Transition Age Youths’ Mental Health Care

Transition Age Youth

• I’ve Been There: Embracing Personal Storytelling to Reduce Stigma
• Embrace the Change: Effective Personal Youth Advocacy
• What You Can Do to Prevent Suicide
• The Dream Between the Lines: A Shift in Perspective that Allows Us to See Beyond the Disability

Consumer & Family Engagement

• Together is Better: Family Unit Approach to Treatment
• 40 Days to Wellness: An Integrative Nutrition and Wellness Approach to Mental Health
• The Family Talk Approach to Family Conversation
• Using Laughter to Break the Cycle of Psychological Negativity

Affiliate Relations

• A Solution for the Payroll Headache: Employee vs. Independent Contractor?
• Affiliates Helping Affiliates: Affiliate Mentoring Pilot Project, What We’ve Learned
• Building Rome Day 1: Where to Begin & How to Get Started Grant Writing
• Changing Lives with NAMI Programs? This one’s for you!