Ending the Silence is NAMI’s free, evidence-based, 50-minute session designed for middle and high school students. Your students will learn about mental health conditions through a brief presentation, short videos, and personal testimony from a young adult who describes their journey to recovery.
NAMI Ending the Silence presentations include two leaders: one who shares an informative presentation and a young adult with a mental health condition who shares their journey of recovery. Audience members can ask questions and gain understanding of an often-misunderstood topic. Through dialogue, we can help grow the movement to end stigma. Our NAMI Westside Los Angeles team speaks to middle and high school students at area schools about mental health conditions, including warning signs, facts, and statistics, and we share how they can get help for themselves, a family member or a friend.
Request an Ending the Silence Presentation from our NAMI WLA team at your school.
Research has shown that NAMI’s Ending the Silence for Students program is effective in changing middle and high school students’ knowledge and attitudes toward mental health conditions, and guiding them to seek help.
The Need to End the Silence
My son was really interested in the class they had this week with the speakers who came to talk about depression, anxiety and suicide. He thought it was fascinating and hasn’t talked so much about something that happened in school in a long, long time. It had a very big (and positive) effect on him!
Bring NAMI’s Ending the Silence to Your School
Interested in having NAMI present an “Ending the Silence” presentation at a Westside Los Angeles school? Submit your request or contact our Program Director, Elizabeth Stephens, directly: estephens@namila.org
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