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NEC Response to COVID-19

In these times of fear, uncertainty and increased isolation, NEC believes our society needs more than ever to connect and feel empowered. Social distancing has been recommended as an important way to slow the spread of COVID-19. We need to distinguish between physical distancing of at least 6 feet and social distancing. Physical distancing is recommended now, but social distancing can be damaging and retraumatizing, especially to vulnerable individuals.  However, even when we are physically distant we can socially connect online.  Those of us with lived experience of severe emotional distress are well prepared for this disaster because we have long known that our healing and resilience are enhanced by our connecting at a heart-to-heart level. So we need not turn physical distancing into social isolation. We have developed Emotional CPR (eCPR) as a way to enhance everyone’s capacity to Connect, emPower, and Revitalize each other through mutual support. To adapt to present life, we have developed an online version of eCPR which we are rolling out now. We are now offering online eCPR certification trainings, support groups, and communities of practice. These efforts are helping to alleviate the trauma of social isolation through physical distancing and lay the foundation for healing.

Email [email protected] if you want to participate in these Emotional CPR offerings and check www.emotional-cpr.org for updates.

Upcoming Webinar in NEC’s Youth Leadership Webinar Series: Creating Space for Myself

Presenters: Sean Perry and Miranda Todt

Wednesday, February 10th at 4:30pm Eastern

Webinar Description:

We R H.O.P.E. is a nonprofit organization that brings anxiety education, coaching, trauma-informed services, suicide prevention, collaborative problem-solving, and Emotional CPR/ Youth Emotional CPR to schools, families, and youth. The organization supports youth who are struggling through educational programs and helps to develop peer support groups in schools. This webinar will discuss We R H.O.P.E.’s approach to building leadership among youth, with a specific focus on the importance of self-care for youth leaders. Sean Perry and Miranda Todt will describe how youth leaders can be encouraged to create space for themselves, thereby building resilience and connection.

Click here to register.

New Resource: The Advocates’ Guide 2020

The Advocates’ Guide: An Educational Primer on Federal Programs and Resources Related to Affordable Housing andCommunity Development is, as the title suggests, a guide to affordable housing. But on many levels it is much more than that. The guide comprises hundreds of pages of useful resources and practical knowhow, written by leading experts in the affordable housing and community development field with a common purpose: to educate advocates and affordable housing providers of all kinds about the programs and policies that make housing affordable and accessible to low-income people across America.

Click here for the guidebook.

NEC’s Oryx Cohen Featured on Break Down Wake Up Podcast

In this episode, Oryx Cohen shares his story of traveling to far away places via his psyche to find his own answers and insights.

The episode explores the value that extreme states of consciousness have in processing unresolved trauma, how we can ground ourselves when we are feeling disconnected through physical touch and present attention, and how feeling connected to people and things influence our care and investment in them.

Click here to listen.

Recording Now Available: Youth MOVE’s Approach to Developing Youth Leadership

Presenters: Madeline Zielinski and Jasmine Boatright

Webinar Description:

As the youth movement expands across the country, youth advocates are stepping into roles that support systemic transformation and work to improve services and supports for all young adults with lived experience with mental health challenges and other system involvement. Young adults assuming leadership and advocacy roles within communities must be able to recognize intrinsic strengths, build self- awareness, and have opportunities to identify areas for future growth and learning. These opportunities develop the capacity for youth advocates to become effective leaders. This webinar will explore Youth MOVE National’s approach to developing leadership capacity of youth and young adults with lived experience and explore how lived experience shapes our understanding of leadership.

Click here to view the recording. Click here for the PowerPoint slides.

Recent Work

Webinar: Emotional CPR Brings Hope, Life and Community to a Sad World

British Columbia Psychosocial Rehabilitation | Advanced Practice is very pleased to announce a webinar with Dr. Daniel Fisher CEO of The National Empowerment Center, and Shontelle Prokipcak from Mental Health and Addiction Services of Ottawa! Click here for the webinar overview

Recent Interview with NEC’s Dan Fisher on Polish Radio Station

Daniel Fisher was recently interviewed in Katowice,Poland by a TV station. There is an introduction in Polish, but rest of interview is in English with translation into Polish. See below for the interview.

Updated Hearing Voices Curriculum Now Available!

Originally developed by Dr. Pat Deegan, the NEC Hearing Voices Curriculum now includes updates developed by Dr. Dan Fisher, Oryx Cohen, and Digital Eyes Film.  In addition to the original simulation exercises, the updates include a new DVD featuring one of the co-founders of the Hearing Voices Network, Dr. Marius Romme, as well as testimony from voice hearers themselves.  The updated curriculum includes new discussion questions that will help participants better understand how they can support voice hearers after the training.

For more information about the curriculum click here.

Learn more about the updated Hearing Voices Curriculum in the video below.

Resource of the Week

Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures

One of a series of materials produced by the Evaluation [email protected] This compendium provides a resource of current recovery and recovery-related instruments for adult mental health system stakeholders to use in research and evaluation particularly towards the end of identifying evidence-based practices. [Click to view Measuring the Promise (PDF – 7,917KB, 254 pages)]

Daniel B. Fisher is co-author of Psychiatry Online article on Virtual Support for Recovery

Enhancing Standards and Principles in Digital Mental Health With Recovery-Focused Guidelines for Mobile, Online, and Remote Monitoring Technologies (PDF, 2 pages, 434KB)

NEC Now Hosting Empower! Radio Show

Dan Fisher and Oryx Cohen are now hosting a monthly radio show on Unity Radio, WUTY 102.9 FM, Worcester’s Community Connection! Be sure to check out the latest episode!

Visit EMPOWER! on Unity Radio

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Finding Our Voice is a program for training emerging c/s/x leaders in advocacy skills and ways of being. The following video was produced by one our graduates, Miriam Israel using the skills that she learned in our training.

Quick Resources Guide

Warmlines

A warmline is a peer-run listening line staffed by people with lived experience of mental health challenges. Click here for a list of warmlines in each state.

Online and Phone Supports During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Click here to access listings of online and phone-based peer support groups from PeerGalaxy, Western Mass RLC, and Peerly Human during this time of physical distancing.

Psychiatric Advance Directives

Psychiatric advance directives are legal instruments that may be used to document a person’s specific instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment. Click here to visit the National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives.

Protection and Advocacy Systems by State

Each state has a designated protection and advocacy system that offers advocacy and assistance with legal and civil rights issues pertaining to disability. Click here to find your state’s protection and advocacy system.

Mission:

To carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people with lived experience with mental health issues, trauma, and extreme states.