This has been one of the most active and eventful years for NAMI’s Education, Training, and Peer Support Center. Our program expansion has focused on creating a new library of Spanish-language materials and videos in several of our NAMI signature programs, which will enable us to carry these programs to many more Spanish-speaking people. These new materials will be reviewed during the Institute program. On another front, our new program for families of children and adolescents with mental illness is taking shape, and a new take-home module on post-traumatic stress disorder will soon be added to Family-to-Family. In addition, important research on two of the center’s programs will be reviewed and discussed.

• Joyce Burland, Ph.D., director, Education, Training, and Peer Support Center, NAMI National, Arlington, VA
• Lynne Saunders, director, Technical Assistance and Special Projects, NAMI National, Arlington, VA
• Kathryn Cohan McNulty, director, Recovery Education and Support, NAMI National, Pascoag, RI
• Sarah O’Brien, director, In Our Own Voice, NAMI National, Arlington, VA
• Teri Brister, Ph.D., director, Young Families Education Program, NAMI National, Arlington, VA
• Susan McCutcheon, R.N., Ed.D., program manager for special projects, Office of Mental Health Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C.
• Amy Wood, Ph.D., George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
• Alicia Lucksted, Ph.D., research investigator, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD