SUNYA East Campus, College of Public Health

NAMI-Rensselaer County is offering a FREE Criminal Justice Advocacy Training on February 18th at the SUNYA East Campus, College of Public Health in Rensselaer. The Advocacy Training Program is a one-day program offered by NAMI-NYS for persons interested in advocating for loved ones with mental illness who are in the criminal justice system and to teach others do be a criminal justice advocate. Criminal Justice Advocacy is necessary because people with psychiatric disabilities are a significant population within the criminal justice system. The NAMI-NYS Criminal Justice Advocacy Program works with community mental health agencies to strengthen services to persons with serious mental illness who are either diverted out of the justice system or are released from correctional facilities. If you are interested in learning about what happens when your loved one gets arrested and criminal justice procedures, please contact us to register for this one day training. You may reach us by calling 588-6949 (Mary Beth) or 227-6701 (Mary). You may also register by emailing us at namitroyrenss@aol.com.