The Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum

Training: Train the Trainer

 

The Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum

 

The Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum

Self-advocacy is essential to the empowerment of mental health consumers. By helping consumers learn to advocate for themselves, you help them to take control over their own recovery and to assert their rights. Many organizations strive to teach self-advocacy to consumers, but until recently there has been no national self-advocacy curriculum designed specifically to address the needs of mental health consumers.

The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse has developed the Freedom Self-Advocacy Curriculum as a tool to help you teach self-advocacy skills to mental health consumers. Working in conjunction with the National Mental Health Association (NMHA), the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems (NAPAS), and other organizations, we have developed a set of three workshops that you can learn to teach to consumers.

All of the workshop materials are available free for download below. The Clearinghouse is available to provide technical assistance regarding any of the workshop materials. Clearinghouse staff are also available to provide training in teaching the workshops with Freedom Training Institutes.

Download Workshop Materials: (Please note that all materials are in PDF format, if you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader it can be downloaded here.)

The Freedom Curriculum is based on a "train the trainer" model. Your organization's staff and volunteers can learn how to teach the three Freedom Self-Advocacy Workshops to consumers in your community.

 

Download materials at the myselfhelp.org site.

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