STAR Center News
May 2, 2012
Highlights:
- May Teleconferences on Spirituality
- STAR Center Director Job Opening
- Reporter Seeking Input on Holistic Approaches to Self-Care
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Celebrate the month and join the STAR Center for these upcoming teleconferences:
“Honoring & Supporting Our Spiritual Wellness During Times of Crisis: The Diverse Personal, Cultural and Spiritual Experiences of Mental Health Consumers”
May 10, 2012 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (1:00 p.m. Central Time, noon Mountain Time, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time)
Join participants from the STAR Center’s Workshop on Multicultural Competence, Intense Spiritual Experiences and Mental Health in exploring how culture and spirituality contribute to recovery and wellness, and what helps spiritually when one is in crisis. Self-Help, Peer Support and Service Provider Technical Assistance Tool Kit author Laura Mancuso will be joined by Workshop and Tool Kit contributors Can Truong, Gitane Williams, Jimi Kelley and Catherine Quinerly in a discussion with teleconference participants. This call is intended for those with lived experience of mental illness who are interested in exploring how spirituality, culture and mental health have intersected in their own lives during times of emotional or mental crisis.
Register online here for the May 10 teleconference. You will receive a confirmation email with call-in information.
“Spiritual Wellness During Times of Crisis: How Consumer-Supporters Can Honor and Support Diverse Personal, Cultural and Spiritual Experiences of Mental Health Consumers”
May 31, 2012 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (1:00 p.m. Central Time, noon Mountain Time, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time)
Join participants from the STAR Center’s Workshop on Multicultural Competence, Intense Spiritual Experiences and Mental Health in exploring how consumer-supporters and service providers can honor and support consumers’ spiritual wellness during times of crisis. Self-Help, Peer Support and Service Provider Technical Assistance Tool Kit author Laura Mancuso will be joined by Workshop and Tool Kit contributors Can Truong, Gitane Williams, Jimi Kelley and Catherine Quinerly. This call is intended for those who support consumers (family members, friends, service providers) who wish to be supportive in ways that honor a real diversity of experiences.
Register online here for the May 31 teleconference. You will receive a confirmation email with call-in information.
NAMI is seeking a new director for the STAR Center:
The STAR Center provides Support, Technical Assistance and Resources to assist consumer-operated and consumer-supporter programs in meeting the needs of under-served populations. Specifically, the STAR Center’s focus areas are cultural competence and diversity in the context of mental health recovery and consumer self-help and self-empowerment.
NAMI is seeking a highly able leader to serve as Director of the STAR Center. The STAR Center Project Director provides for the overall program vision, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of consumer support project activities of this grant-funded Consumer-Supporter Technical Assistance Center. The Project Director/STAR Center Director is a member of the NAMI Senior Management Team and works closely with the SAMHSA GPO staff in grant implementation.
NAMI is an equal opportunity employer. For more information about the position and for application processes, please visit us online.
SZ Magazine Seeking Personal Experience with Holistic Approaches
SZ Magazine has contacted NAMI and would like to hear about experiences of people living with schizophrenia who have tried holistic medicine approaches such as yoga, meditation, herbal supplements and message therapy. If you have a perspective you’d like to share, please contact Melissa Churly directly at mchurly@gmail.com.