I NEED HELP!
Forget calling your ex. These three digits connect you to a mental health crisis counselor, 24/7.
What is 988?
This communication skill requires putting down your phone, closing your mouth, and resisting the urge to tell your own story.
What is active listening?
Getting enough of this each night helps both your brain and your body recharge.
What is sleep?
This NAMI Colorado council advises the State Board on issues affecting people living with mental health conditions and organizes events for peers across the state.
What is the NAMI Colorado Peer Leadership Council?
This NAMI support program offers family members and caregivers a place to share experiences, develop coping strategies, and connect with others who understand their challenges.
What is NAMI Family Support Group?
This free NAMI service provides mental health information, emotional support, and resource referrals. It's not a crisis hotline.
What is the NAMI HelpLine?
Saying "That sounds really frustrating" instead of "You're overreacting" demonstrates this skill, which acknowledges someone's feelings without necessarily agreeing.
What is validation?
This part of your overall health includes your emotions, thoughts, and social well-being.
What is mental health?
This is the year the NAMI Colorado PLC was founded.
2024.
When supporting a loved one with a mental health condition, family members can practice this by listening without judgment and trying to understand their loved one’s feelings and experiences.
What is empathy?
No tuition, no final exam, and plenty of people who understand. This NAMI educational program helps families and friends support someone living with mental illness.
What is NAMI Family-to-Family?
Replacing "You never listen to me!" with "I feel unheard when..." uses this communication technique that reduces blame.
What are I-statements?
Taking a walk, making art, or practicing slow breathing are examples of these strategies for managing stress and difficult emotions.
What are coping skills?
Affiliate Board leaders appoint a primary and an alternate representative to serve in this role on their behalf.
What is a NAMI Colorado Peer Leadership Council Member?
This NAMI program offers education to parents and caregivers of children and adolescents experiencing mental health challenges, helping them understand mental health conditions and navigate available support.
What is NAMI Basics?
Sometimes the best expert is someone who's been there. This NAMI peer-led support group brings together adults with lived experience of mental health challenges.
What is NAMI Connection?
Before delivering your brilliant 45-minute solution to someone's problem, try asking, "Would you like me to listen or help you think through options?" This practice gives the other person control over the conversation.
What is asking permission before offering advice?
This six-letter word describes negative attitudes or unfair judgments toward people with mental health conditions.
What is stigma?
This document outlines the formal rules and step-by-step instructions created by the Colorado PLC to guide council member behavior, ensure compliance, and maintain consistency.
What is the Policies & Procedures Handbook?
When a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis, family members can create this in advance to identify warning signs, helpful coping strategies, emergency contacts, and steps to take to keep everyone safe.
What is a Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD)?
You need help finding counseling, housing, or food assistance in your community. Not a crisis line, this three-digit service connects people with local resources.
What is 211?
When someone doesn't believe they need treatment, arguing rarely builds trust. This four-part communication method developed by Dr. Xavier Amador emphasizes listening, empathy, common ground, and collaboration. Name its four steps.
What are Listen, Empathize, Agree, and Partner (LEAP)?
When you speak up for yourself or someone else to ensure needs are heard and respected, you practice this.
What is advocacy?
This individual on the Colorado PLC will present the December 1st event focused on helping peers manage holiday stress.
Who is Michael Winterburn?
When supporting a loved one living with a mental health condition, family members can do this to protect their own well-being while maintaining a caring and supportive relationship.
What is setting healthy boundaries?