2014 NAMI FaithNet Mini-Grant Recipients Mid Year and Final Reports Included Italics = previous grant recipients Affiliate Grant Type Contact Person Contact Information Proposal Goals Mid-year Rec’d Final Report Rec’d NAMI Omaha Omaha, Nebraska Capacity Building Timothy Wilkinson (402) 932-7354 namiomaha@gmail.com Faith outreach has been made a priority for 2014. Would like to begin setting the ground work to reach out to local faith communities. Expects to train for core members on Reaching out and Bridges. Those members will create a survey to be sent out to 50 churches. Hope to receive 3 inquiries to present Bridges…. 11/11/14: Hosted two presentations and two conferences; involving a Lutheran church and one at a CMA. 25 and 15 attendees at the presentations. 45 and 85 attendees at the conferences. Plan to follow up with new contacts the initiative generated. Plan to use Bridges for future outreach.
NAMI Wayne/Holmes County Wooster, Ohio Enhanced Outreach Fitzwater (330) 264-1590 Hold two separate events geared toward faith leaders 1) Plans to host a brunch for 20-30 clergy using NFN tools with the goal of education and stigma reduction. 2) Plan to create appropriate literature for 100 faith leaders, including 15 Amish bishops. Affiliate developed and delivered literature to 119 clergy and Amish Bishops. Plan to follow up with letters, phone calls, and an invitation to brunch (in Oct.) to discuss community resources. 10/23/14: Hosted two events, a brunch and a dinner; with a of 40 faith community members participating. Open to all faiths with special outreach to Amish. Actively encourage people to become members. NAMI Howard County Columbia, MD Enhanced Outreach Beverly Francis-Gibson (410) 772-9300 Would like to strengthen relationship with churches involved in Sunday suppers. They will assign a NFN committee member to act as a liaison with each church. Planning a box lunch in June for all congregations involved in Sunday Suppers. Congregation representatives will meet their liaison and brainstorm ways to further engage with church. Hope to strengthen relationship with all 13 congregations that currently host suppers. Would like to offer at least 10% more presentations to congregations in 2014. Hope that they will gain new speakers and new members from better connections with faith communities Currently reaching out to strengthen relationship with communities that are involved with Sunday Suppers. Hopes that with further outreach affiliate will be able to offer education to the faith community and develop new support groups. 10/28/14: Hosted a Faith in Action Luncheon for all congregations that their identified liaisons have been working with. Each faith leader received a packet of info and resources, including NFN brochure. NAMI Genesee County Linden, MI Capacity Building Ramona (810) 735-4935 ramonadeese@aol.com Has already worked with NAMI Michigan to offer a presentation to “Concerned Pastors for Social Action”. Affiliate has 50 members and plans to train 3 volunteers using Reaching Out and then Bridges. Hope to use Bridges to make 2 presentations by 11/10/14: 1) Completed 4 mailings to ministers. 2) Participated in
The affiliate wants to expand on this outreach. September. Will use grant funds for materials and postage to reach out to Social Action members. Hope and Health in the Community events. 3) at one church service. 4) Will be offering F2F at church in 2015. NAMI Upper Valley Idaho Falls, ID Capacity Building Sheila Keefe (208) 830-8336 Affiliate intends to create a 4 member outreach team who will train using Reaching out and Bridges. They will then report back to the Board to create an outreach plan. The affiliate will identify 4 members to complete training in faith outreach. These members will report back to the board to create an outreach plan. Affiliate hopes to create a contact list of diverse faith communities (6 or more denominations). 11/3/14: Spend bulk of funds on pamphlets to hand out at event. Event scheduled for 95 people on 10/5/14. Trained 7 people to be part of rotating presenters. Hope to expand outreach to 10 counties in Idaho. NAMI Four County Archbold, OH Enhanced Outreach Louis Levy (419) 267-3355 ext. 3 lougoblu@bnnorth.net Small affiliate with no paid staff and 64 members. They would like to create a more formal outreach to faith leaders. Up until now they have done some “inefficient” outreach without much of a methodical approach. Would like to use funds to create a formal plan. They will identify 7-8 volunteers, with a minimum of one from each county they serve. Volunteers will create contact list of congregations in their county and reach out to them for a meeting to discuss MI and resources. Affiliate has collected contact info for all clergy associations in their community, have met with 3 pastors. Building a database of local faith leaders. Currently has MH 1st Aid 11/6/14: Conducted mental health first aid training to clergy and lay leaders. 25 attendees. Training will be repeated in the Spring. Affiliates
Hope to recruit pastor “champions” who will help expand outreach. presentation scheduled for 9/17. Has also offered 2 presentations at newly identified churches. intends to keep checking in with attendees for further opportunities for partnership. NAMI North Dakota Grand Forks, ND Capacity Building Barb Dahlen (701) 757-0282 Bring together a group of individuals to help determine the feasibility of faith outreach in the Grand Forks area. Plans to train 4 individuals to be the FaithNet team. Team members will complete training with Reaching Out and Bridges; will then come together to discuss long term plan. 11/2/14: 4 affiliate members completed Reaching out training. Intend to come together to discuss feasibility of moving forward on faith outreach in the future. NAMI Illinios Springfield, IL Enhanced Outreach Lora Thomas (217) 522-1403 Already working with Pathways to create materials/messages for faith communities which will be made available to affiliates. Hope to be used for Mental Health Awareness Month Hope to offer a networking opportunity for all affiliates on faith outreach. Following the event they hope that 5 affiliates will commit to faith outreach in their county. Additionally, they will an educational workshop for their fall conference to further prepare affiliates and community members to begin outreach in 2015. NAMI Thurston/Mason Lacey, WA Enhanced Outreach Sue Allen (415) 515-9376 Would like to expand their outreach into the Jewish community. Would like to look at what faith communities they currently 1) Hope to host a presentation at 1 synagogue by June 2014. Hope to train 2-4 volunteers for this presentation. Hoping to have 10-18 participants Affiliate has may contact with a Rabbi, has formal meeting 8/22 to discuss material,
have a relationship with who may be willing to host and faith based support group. Plan to provide some technical support to another nearby affiliate who is just starting faith outreach. 2) By October 2014 they would like to have reached out to congregations to gauge interest in offering a faith based support group. 3) Host a training and presentation of Bridges to the Grays Harbor County NAMI and their community by 2014. invitations, formalize date. Working with NAMI Grays Harbor to train their staff/volunteers to conduct faith outreach. NAMI Rensselaer West Sand Lake, NY Basic Outreach Mary Beth Honsinger (518) 588-6949 Planning to an event at SUNY Albany through the school of public health. Affiliate will provide resources to all participants. Intends to use the money to fund printing costs, materials, postage, and refreshments. 1) Hope to the event on August 28th 2) 4 volunteers to present by May 2014 3) Send out 70 invitations for various faith communities and religious organizations. 4) Create binders for each attendee that has info re: services, support groups, treatment centers, signature programs, etc. 11/13/14: by forming a committee to build capacity around Faith outreach. Created a folder of community supports and resources. Offered 1st formal presentation on 8/28/14; used Bridges…; invitations were sent to 140 faith leaders, but only 10 participated from Catholic and protestant churches. One participant has asked for a follow up presentation to congregational
with mental illness in the prison population. community contacts to follow up with in the future. members attended. Has plans to follow up with attendees. documentary Anonymous People. Conducted Sharing hope presentation at Prince of Peace Church. Combined the attendees totaled 650 people. NAMI DeKalb Basic Outreach Alisa Porter (404) 353-4004 Would like to host presentations for two large faith groups. They hope to reach about 1,000 individuals due to size of the churches they intend to connect with. Will start out my offering Bridges with the hopes of following up to offer MH 101/IOOV, then start faith based support groups as needed. 11/13/14: Conducted 4 NFN events; have 3 events scheduled for early 2015. For 3 events affiliate used Bridges of Hope. Also trained facilitator to conduct faith based support group for family members which has now begun. NAMI Madison County, Indiana Basic Outreach Larry Wiesenauer (765) 387-0396 Affiliate has already gone through the capacity building phase; has purchased a laptop, projector, PowerPoint software, & laser printer. Identified a total of 230 faith communities in their county. Intend the use 1) 6 already identified volunteers to be able to present Bridges to faith communities, by 8/2014 2) Conduct Bridges presentations to congregations; hope to visits 4 congregations by end of 2014.