Episodes
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This episode of the NAMI Radio Hour features Clint Fletcher, CRNA and owner of Complete Ketamine, located in Brentwood, Tennessee. Clint opened Complete Ketamine Solutions in Sept 2018. He tells us about Ketamine and how he has administered treatments in his clinic as a treatment for depression and related disorders.We also discuss FDA approval and the off label use of Ketamine as well as the upcoming new nasal spray Esketamine.The NAMI Radio Hour is hosted by Jeff Fladen, NAMI TN Executive Director and is broadcast live Wednesdays at 10 AM CT at www.radiofreenashville.org. -
NAMI In Our Own Voice presentations change attitudes, assumptions and ideas about people with mental health conditions. These freeminute presentations provide a personal perspective of mental health conditions, as leaders such as our guest, Lori Branigan talks openly about what it's like to have a mental health condition. We are seeking organizations that would like an IOOV presentation as well as people that would like to help others by sharing their story. Contact [email protected] for more info. -
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Jennifer Drake-Croft, MSSW | Director of Early Childhood Well Being Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth (TCCY) is the guest on this episode of the NAMI Radio Hour. TCCY has intensified its advocacy of and collaboration for Early Child Well-Being/Adverse Childhood Experiences. This work, including training, collaboration and advocacy on a number of levels, is being overseen by Jennifer Drake Croft who visits Radio Free Nashville and the NAMI Radio Hour 9/20/2017 -
Vic Moore is guest host on this episode with guest Dave Hodges from the Tennessee Peer Lifeline program. Originally broadcast in 2015, this episode of the NAMI Radio Hour looks at peer involvement with recovery. The Tennessee Lifeline Peer Project was established to reduce stigma related to the disease of addiction and increase access to substance abuse recovery like AA and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. They help connect individuals with treatment and they speak publicly about their own personal experience with recovery. -
Social worker, NAMI member, and mental health advocate, Tony Cowan in relatively new to the NAMI world but he has been working to help people for many years both personally and professionally. He shares his story as a care giver and an individual in recovery from mental illness, and his poetry, on this episode of the NAMI Radio Hour podcast series. The NAMI Radio Hour is presented by NAMI Tennessee and is broadcast live Wednesday mornings at 10 AM CT on www.radiofreenashville.org. -
This podcast features Jake Coffey, MPH, MA,Director of Advocacy and Planning for NAMI Tennessee discussing NAMI's role with advocacy. Learn about NAMI Tennessee's efforts with Mental Health and Addiction parity, efforts to expand and enhance CIT (Critical Incident Training) for first responders, and more. -
Marta B. Hernandez is Supervisor at Turning Point Peer Support Center in Memphis, Tennessee. She is joined in the Radio Free Nashville studio by her husband Paul Fontenot who is also a Certified Peer Support Specialist and clergy member. The NAMI Radio Hour is produced by NAMI Tennessee and is hosted by Jeff Fladen, MSW, Executive Director of NAMI Tennessee. The NAMi Tadio Hour is broascasted live Wednesdays at 10 AM CT at www.radiofreenashville.org -
Bonnie Hyler, Coordinator of In Our Own Voice for NAMI Tennessee and Denise Stewart, NAMI TN Volunteer Education Coordinator appear on the NAMI Radio Hour to discuss the NAMI In Our Own voice and upcoming presenter training now scheduled for December, 2018. Learn more by emailing Bonnie at [email protected]. -
Mary Falls and Sally Smallwood have been championing Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee for several years. Hear how grassroots advocates are making a difference and why hope for Medicaid expansion in our state stays alive. Original broadcast 10/24/18 on WRFN, Radio Free Nashville. -
Preview of Beauty and the Brain Beauty and the Brain is a musical event hosted by Jay and Jeshiqua White to raise awareness of mental illness. The event gathers a group of powerful artists voices on stage to spread awareness of this unspoken devastating issue in the music industry. -
Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro, commonly called "Rabbi Rami", is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker on the subjects of liberal Judaism and contemporary spirituality. He joins NAMI Tennessee Executive Director Jeff Fladen on the NAMI Radio Hour to explore paths to healing that may be helpful to anyone that is struggling with obtrusive or negative thoughts or is seeking paths toward wellness. -
Brianne Burgoon, M.Ed., ATR, RYT-200 President,Tennessee Art Therapy Association (TATA) visits with Jeff Fladen to discuss art therapy and its role in our mental health treatment system. -
In this episode of the NAMI Radio Hour, we learn about service animals.After retiring from a career of teaching and counseling, Brenda Dew, Ph.D., began working with pet therapy and training of service dogs with Retrieving Independence in Tennessee. Learn about service animals, how they are trained, and some of the amazing ways that they can help people that are living with disabilities. -
Tom Hunter, CEO of iHope Network, joins NAMI Executive Director, Jeff Fladen, to discuss telemedicine and its use as in psychotherapy over the internet. Is this the future of psychotherapy? -
In this episode, NAMI TN Director Jeff Fladen visits with Megan Hart and Cecilia Melo-Romieof Tennessee Disability Pathfinder.Tennessee Disability Pathfinder is a statewide, comprehensive information and referral for services and resources for all types of disabilities and all ages. Pathfinder is a partnership with the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities. -
Kelly Dorsey is an employee of the Volunteer State Health Plan/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and a licensed massage therapist. She will be sharing "Her story it's, my story, it's our story" which chronicles her journey toward recovery and her efforts to help others. -
For many, it can be confusing to understand what happens behind the doors of a community mental health center. Richard Gillespie, LMFT is a psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist with Mental Health Co-op in Cookeville, Tennessee. He joined NAMI Tennessee Executive Director, Jeff Fladen, to talk about his work in a community mental health center. -
Holly Burrow and Clenetta Perry are two mothers of children with disabilities. Listen as they share how they learned to become grassroots advocates in rural America. Hear two mothers talk about their grassroots advocacy as they learn how to raise children with disabilities. Their volunteer advocacy efforts include teaching NAMI Basics, a six-session program for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents with a mental illness which covers mental illnesses, medication, how to advocate for your child. -
Peer support programs provide an opportunity for consumers who have achieved significant recovery to assist others in their recovery journeys. Peer specialists model recovery, teach skills and offer supports to help people experiencing mental health challenges lead meaningful lives in the community. Peer specialists promote recovery; enhance hope and social networking through role modeling and activation; and supplement existing treatment with education, empowerment, and aid in system navigation.Lisa Ragan, Diretor of Peer Recovery Services for TDMHSAS talks with NAMI ED, Jeff Fladen about the peer movement and it's importance for our mental health and substance abuse recovery system. -
Legislators, law enforcement, and mental health advocates including NAMI have been concerned about the number of persons with mental illness who end up in our jails an prisons. On this episode, Jeff Fladen, NAMI Tennessee Executive Director looks at corrections reform and pre-arrest diversion. NAMI Tennessee is also part of a collaboration that successfully advocated for the State of Tennessee to approve $15 million for pre-arrest diversion. Several projects are now underway to begin to address this issue. - Show more
