NAMI In Our Own Voice (IOOV) presentations change attitudes, assumptions and ideas about people with mental health conditions. This is a free, unique public education program developed by NAMI. The presentations provide a personal perspective of mental health conditions, as leaders with lived experience talk openly about what it’s like to have a mental health condition.
Throughout the IOOV presentation, audience members are encouraged to offer feedback and ask questions. Audience participation is an important aspect of IOOV because the more audience members become involved, the closer they come to understanding what it is like to live with a mental illness and stay in recovery.
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Who is In Our Own Voice For?
In Our Own Voice presentations are given to consumer groups, students, law enforcement officials, educators, behavioral health providers, faith community members, politicians, professionals, inmates, and interested civic groups. Anyone can learn from this presentation!
“Amazing presentation with amazing presenters! You 100% erased any stigma I used to associate with mental illness.”
In Our Own Voice Goals
The goals of IOOV presentations are to meet the need for consumer- run initiatives, to set a standard for quality education about mental illness from those who have been there, to offer genuine work opportunities, to encourage self-confidence and self-esteem in presenters, and to focus on recovery and the message of hope. Anyone familiar with mental illness knows that recovery is not a singular event, but a multi-dimensional, multi-linear journey characterized more by the mindset of the one taking it than by his or her condition at any given moment along the way.