Over 35,000 people have taken the course in the past five years. Their evaluations have been this is the best thing I could have done for myself and my mentally ill relative . The course is limited to 20 participants who must be pre-interviewed by the educators before the course. F2F is taught by trained volunteer family members. The participants must be family member volunteers and must have completed the 12-week class themselves.
Participants generally come in pairs to be trained as co-educators in newly formed training areas.
Twelve new and previously trained volunteers spent an intense interesting weekend doing the hands-on skill building training. The training gives you the structure and group process techniques to handle these group dynamics effectively. We are expecting to run two day training programs in different regions of Massachusetts over the next year. As we have seen a demand for this type of course, we are very excited to be bringing it to Massachusetts. Additional funding for this training was provided by Worcester Communities of Care.