That is really quite an accomplishment. What that means is there is independent Research Done op the effectiveness of the program longterm. And what is found when you compare groups of people who have taken that class, graduated from it and those who have not and compared the longterm impact of what that meant, there is a tremendous impact of family to family. I argue that could happen with a lot of other programs as well. This is exciting. This is something that happened with family to family. As i say, long history of family to family in v. A. Facilities. But sometimes we found people said, gosh this class is wonderful but really long. Or this class is great but gorn i wish there was more information specifically about my people, who are getting their services perhaps from the v. A. Or maybe Getting Services from department of defense. I need to understand more about what this is like. Because of that, thats why we decided to adapt family to Family Program into a sixsession program that would meet this particular population needs. When we talk about measuring our past success, a couple of quotes from past families that were in the v. A. Were still friend with someone who was in the class. There is always an open ear, open heart and shoulder to cry on if you need it. Universal reaction to the family to family class pu the same thing happened for that course as well. Thats another measure of our success. The anecdota experience. And friends people make. We wanted to create a community really for these military families as well. So they could find each other and work through this together. It can be incredibly challenging and isolated. We touched on how we got to this point and how we got to the expert advisory group. Bringing people together to talk about what should this program look like. It was amazing to have that incredible brain trust in the room and hear what they today say and probably the first or second thing they said was do not forget to keep this a nami program. Make sure it stays at the heart of the program. Peer taught model. This is a military family reaching out to other military families. Grabbing on to the phone saying, i understand where youve been. I want to help your journey be a lot less bumpy than mine was. As colleen mentioned, endless thank yous to give for so many people giving input and insight and sharing resources. Thats an exciting part of this as well. As i mentioned, and it is clear, target audience for this program is military family. So unlike those family to family classes taught in the v. A. , often times those have been mixed classes. A mix of civilians, attendees and military families. Nami home front will be exclusively for military families baud the language we use in the program is geared toward that population. And a lot of resources as well. Sefrp certainly we will talk about military resources but the focus population is military families. And i mentioned, did i skip a slide in i might have. And if i didnt, you will see it soon. But nam i home front six sessions long, each session 2 1 2 hours much like family to family follows the typical nami education format and an adaptation to the family to Family Program. Course content, what is in this thing . It is very similar to nam i family to family. First thing we talk about is what is family education. Gets this group of people to better understand what is nami. What am i getting myself into somewhat is going on herwhat is. Somewhat is going on herwhat i. We talk about class 3. Understanding trauma and overview of diagnosidiagnosis. We talk about combat express and treatment servicees a and crisis management. And again the content of folks who may be Getting Services from the department of defense or from the v. A. Or again civilian services. We talk about crisis preparation and communication skills. And finally we do in class six we talk about family roles, recovery and self care. When i mean family roles we talk about how is it different for me if im a spouse, military spouse, or if i am here because my son or daughter is in it or maybe my grandson is living with me now. Because he is not getting along with his parents. What are the different family roles. How do we find a common ground. Thats the course content. In class five we talk a lot about crisis preparation and communication skills. We use a different set of tools when we talk about communication. We use something called collaborative problem solving. For anyone in here who is a nami basics instructor, this is not you unfamiliar to you. I know youre thinking, why on earth would you use a process that comes from the book the explosive child. I tell you something. When there are a lot of excellent techniques in this process and even though initially it was developed for use with young people it has a lot of very adaptable strategies to use with an adult as well. A different way of doing things. And it is a lot about sitting down with a person when theyre in, after youve add crisis experience, youre talking to them when things are pretty stable and working out a plan for how are we going to communicate with things we maybe disagree on in the future. How can we come up with a plan to work on together that were both feeling comfortable with. It is taking things down to a really basic level and planning ahead. Obviously youre not, just like you wouldnt use the problem solving process necessarily in the family to family course, in the midst of the worst of the crisis. You might wait until after to think about it a little bit. But it is a different technique and this class is half as long as family to family course. There certainly is a chance that people might also take family to family in addition to the home front course. But again, we want to make sure we have this option as well as very specific to this population. One of the either things weve done is in class six we are using a snippet of film from the program this emotional life put on by pbs. We got special permission by public broadcasting system and vulcn productions to use the material. There is excellent film that has military families and some veteran Service Members who talk about what it is like to deal with this when you come home. When you are dealing with the combat stress and adjust to civilian life. How you calm down the skills, respond to everyday life. When you are are really well trained to be prepared for any disaster. How do you slow that down . How do you intd act with your family when you feel like you have very little in common when you first return. So there is excellent film and we created discussion points around that. That is different in the class as well. I know in family to family we bring in speakers. In this class we will bring this film. I know this is only eight minutes long but it is excellent conversation. Thats an interesting piece as well. Something else that makes it different, weve got a very large general resources section in this manual. And it has resources that are specific to the department of defense branches of the military, all of them including cost guard. Information about services that come from the reserve and National Guard and military relief organization. Veterans resources including department of Veterans Affairs and others p. Other Government Resources whether it is sasa, health and human services. Others. Nongovernmental resources. Such as nami and other options. And helpful publications. One thing i want to make clear is this is particular right out of manual. But if you go on nami. Org and go to the nami home front website, you find the full general resources section available to the public. We feel the folks have been waiting long enough to Fund Resource answers sometimes it is hard to find out what do we do next. It is not that there arent great resources there but it feels hidden. It is hard to know where to start. We have some of this material, put it in one spot. This information is available on the public website, nami. If dwou to the front page you will find this available. As you will Additional Resources as it does each class. We want to make sure for those of you who are maybe your state doesnt have home front right away but you still get calls from various folks in the public, from the community, who have a veteran in their family, this their life they would like to get services for, can you look up this material, grab it, use it online. If you look at it online, there are web sites attached to each of the resources what are listed. A live document. Go straight to the website source. Or print it out, hand it out. Use it if you have help line in your office, that kind of thing. A lot of excellent resources there, but we dont want to hide any information. We want to make sure that folks can get their hand on what they need as soon as possible. Unlike other nami manuals, other nmi manuals, the glossary contained a lot of terms that you wont find in the manual itself. Certainly there are terms related to health, to medication, to how the brain works, brain chemistry, all of that. Same sourt of thing that you find in the glowsry of the family to family manual or basic manual p one of the things we did is this manual. There is a lot of information this here about terms that fly around in conversation between veterans and Service Members. They can say an entire sentence and you and i, if were civilians, we will not understand a word they have just said. But we want families to have access to those terms so they better understand what is said around them. What are typical terms that people use . And i think thats really helpful also for the instructor for this class. Because sometimes families may not understand what their loved one is talking about but we may. Understand some of the terms flying around. I know for me, im the daughter of an army veteran but my father was done serving in 1961. I was not born until 1966. So his experience is cold war related. Spanish speaker. Russian speaker. Can you imagine he was probably doing all sorts of interesting thing at that time. But again his service from a long time ago. And people in more recent conflicts, iraq, afghanistan, bosnia, it is a very different experience for them than happens the older veterans. We will have mixed classes made up for people that have serve fled cree why or vietnam. But also these more recent wars. But also these more recent wars. Sometimes the language is very different. Service is very different. People serving more recently are surviving wounds and Different Things in the field that folks in past wars never would have survived. It is a very Different Group of people. We want to make sure that people have access to the terms floiing around among this group of people. And that said, i want to do a little activity with you. I know hopefully you all have little index cards. Okay. Because i will read a sentence that i made up, all right. Know this, i made it up. For those of you that served in the service i probably mixed branches here. But im going to Say Something in military speak. I want you to jot down on the card, what do you think im saying. Okay. You dont have to get this perfect. There are fabulous gifts and prizes for doing this activity. Do hold on to your card. I have special things for special people in this room and there is more than one government, so there you go. I want to you say a sentence and think about, what in the world is she say pg. With you but i will translate it for pu. That co never leaves qsville but seems we get sent out every other week. Outside the wires bad man yesterday an ied almost took out frank entine. Make a mess of things. Always saying you got to be squared away but they know nothing. Stick with me, ive got your 6. You have any idea what i just said . Some of you do. And i realize that this is ports f parts of different brafrmgs. I mixed some things here. But can i say it one more time. That co never leaves qville but seems we get sent down range every other week. Outside the wires, bad, man. Yesterday an ied almost took out frank enstein. Make mess of things. Always saying you got to be squared away but they know nothing. Stick with me, i got your 6. You want know what i said in probably do. All right. Civilian translation coming up. That Commanding Officers never leaves base housing. Otherwise known as containerized housing un pits. Slang for that is qville. As in whoville. As in dr. Seuss. But our unit is sent to the combat zone every other week. Outside the security perimeter is bad. Yesterday an improvised explosive device almost took out a marine corps monster truck with spot seams and addon army. Thats the frankenstein. Other who never leave the base, like fab, like hobbit, staying on base, make make as in of things. They know nothing. Stick with me, i got your back. So a lot of people dont know what, i got your 6, means. I got your back. Outrange. Outside the wire. A lot of terms flyinging around. When i talk to Service Members, one of the things that is frustrating when they try to get services, maybe decide im getting my services in services world. Tservices world. Thservices world. E services world. Cservices world