HOW TO HELP SOMEONE

About LEAP

LEAP (Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner) shows clinicians, family members and law enforcement professionals how to quickly gain the trust of someone who is angry or paranoid. It gives you the tools to persuade someone in “denial” about mental illness to accept treatment and/or voluntarily comply with your requests.

The LEAP method grew out of Dr. Xavier Amador’s lived experiences, including:

• the successful struggle to convince his brother, Henry, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia to take the medications prescribed for him.
• twenty-five years of hands-on clinical experience with patients who lacked insight into their illnesses
• experience gained from hundreds of LEAP seminars involving the tens of thousands of clinicians, family member and law enforcement
• twenty-five years of clinical research supported by NIMH, Stanley Research Foundation, American Psychiatric Association and NARSAD.

All about L.E.A.P

Henry Amador Center on Anosognosia HERE

Order the book, ‘I Am Not Sick and I Don’t Need Help’ by Dr. Xavier Amador and receive detailed instructions on how to use and practice LEAP. Note: If you login at AmazonSmile and select CONNECT Summit County as your desired non-profit, a small portion of the book proceeds will go to us at no extra cost to you. 

L.E.A.P Trainings

Attend CONNECT Summit County’s next LIVE or VIRTUAL LEAP Training for Family Members, Mental Health Professionals and/or Law Enforcement Officials.

Local residents, Lynne Rutan, Kay Harrison, Carol Librizzi, and Laura Waugaman have been trained and certified by Dr. Amador as LEAP Trainers. They volunteer their time to teach LEAP in our community enabling CONNECT Summit County to provide this invaluable training at no charge to our community members. Not only are these Certified LEAP Trainers excellent instructors, they bring their own lived experience using LEAP.