CD-ROMs Include:
WEDNESDAY, June 28th

• State Leader Joint Session
• Veterans Council
• Affiliate Leaders Networking
• State Leader Meetings: National Consumer Council
• State Presidents Council
• Executives Directors Group
• NAMI Education Center Institute
• Special Needs Planning Seminar
• New Directions in Research

• LI-1: The Key to Success: Recruiting Volunteers for Your NAMIWalk
• LI-2: Charting an Advocacy Path in Your State: Strategic and Legal Considerations
• LI-3: “Let’s Talk” Discussion on Leadership Tools for Consumer Councils
• LI-4: Strategic Planning: Making It Work for You!
• LI-5: Create a Winning Newsletter: In Print and Online

• LI-6: Widening Our Scope: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Communities
• LI-8: E-Mail Communication 101: So You’ve Got a List of E-mail Addresses: Now What?
• LI-9: Roles and Responsibilities of the Board of Directors and Executive Director: Best Practices for Working Together
• LI-10: Bringing Mental Illness Awareness Week and Bipolar Disorder Awareness Day 2006 to Your Community
• LI-11: The Power of In Our Own Voice in Growing Your NAMI Organization

• LI-12: Working with the Media
• LI-13: The Role of the Board of Directors in Fundraising
• LI-14: How to Build Your State and Affiliate Outreach on Children’s Issues
• LI-15: NAMI’s Medicaid Tool Kit: What It Is and How to Use It Effectively
• LI-16: “Let’s Talk” Discussion on Making the Transition: Hiring an Executive Director for Your Local NAMI Affiliate
• LI-17: Connecting with Veterans in Your State: Partners in Advocacy

• Legislative Plenary
• Multicultural Strategic Summit: How to Achieve Cultural Competence
• Open Microphone with the NAMI Board of Directors
• Opening Plenary: A Ceasefire on Healthcare

• International Perspectives on MH Treatment & Advocacy

• 1-A: How Consumers and Families Can Collaboratively Achieve Mental Health System Transformation
• 1-B: Mental Illness as a Spiritual Journey
• 1-C: Bringing Veterans into All Levels of NAMI
• 1-E: Provider Education Course: Families and Consumers and Training Faculty
• 1-F: Transforming Jurisprudence: Justice for All Requires Changing the Minds of Lawyers and Judges
• 1-G: The Family/Youth Voice in Statewide Systems Reform
• 1-H: Planning for the Future Care of Relatives with Mental Illness
• 1-I-J: Starting, Organizing, and Running a Successful IOOV Program
• 1-K: Producing TV Media with Community Access
• 1-L: Taking Criminal Justice Training Programs into Prisons
• 1-M: Sustainable Recovery from Mental Illness
• 1-N: The Science of Mental Illness: Changing Middle Schoolers’ Attitudes about Mental Illness through Education
• 1-P: Multicultural Strategic Summit African American Mental Health
• 1-R: Multicultural Strategic Summit—Language Access Services for Limited English Proficient Individuals

• 2-A: SAMHSA’S National Anti-Stigma Campaign: Mental Health Trans-formation in Action
• 2-B: A Recovery Model for the 21st Century
• 2-C: Current Issues in Restraint and Seclusion
• 2-D: Frameworks Youth Suicide Prevention Project: A Key to Early Recognition and Treatment of Mental Illness
• 2-E: Family-to-Family Master Class
• 2-F: Therapeutic Courts: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
• 2-G: NAMI’s Parents and Teachers as Allies National Inservice Education Program
• 2-H: Special Needs Trusts to Promote Jobs and Housing
• 2-J: NAMI’s Peer-to-Peer Recovery Education Course: Experience in the Field
• 2-K: Improving the Police Response in Your Community
• 2-L: Understanding and Relating to a Person with Borderline Personality Disorder
• 2-M: Multicultural Strategic Summit Diversifying NAMI: Successful Strategies for Reaching Out to Underserved Communities
• 2-N: Improving Adherence: What do We Know and What Can We Learn?
• 2-P: Multicultural Strategic Summit Latino Mental Health
• Special Session with E. Fuller Torrey, MD
• Multicultural Strategic Summit Plenary

• Three Years After the New Freedom Commission Report: What Has Been Accomplished for our Children?
• Decriminalizing Mental Illness and Creating Workable Alternatives
• The Cornerstone of Recovery: Decent, Safe, and Affordable Housing
• Medicaid Redesign
• A New Look at Assertive Community Treatment
• Student Activism: Organizing to Save Lives
• Strategic Planning to Enhance Services for Veterans
• Creating a Mental Health Workforce Dedicated to Consumer Recovery and Resiliency and Family Collaboration
• Multicultural Strategic Summit—Best Practices in Multicultural Advocacy and Treatment

• RESEARCH PLENARY: Long-term Studies, the FDA and Safety
• PLENARY: A Celebration of the NAMI Movement
• Leadership Alliance Lunch Keynote – Author Pete Earley
• Special Session with A. Kathryn Power, MEd, SAMHSA
• Multicultural Strategic Summit Roundtable Discussions on Evidence-Based Practices

• Schizophrenia
• Schizo-Affective Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder
• Depression
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Co-Occurring Disorders
• PTSD
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Mood Disorders in Children
• ADD/ADHD
• Medications
• Physical Health & Mental Illness

• Crisis Intervention Training
• StigmaBusters
• FaithNet
• Medicare Drug Benefit
• Choose Work!
• State Ratings: Sharing State Experiences
• Increasing Jail Treatment & Diversion

• Convention Banquet