SAVE THE DATE! Our 7th annual Community Partnership Celebration is coming soon. This year our 7th Annual (and 1st virtual) Community Partnership Celebration will be on Monday, November 16th, at 5:30 pm. The online…
One of the ways Families as Allies works to make things better at the system's level is gathering input from families about the best ways to design services and programs…
How do you say goodbye to an icon in the family movement? An esteemed mentor? A much-beloved friend? I don’t know. But sometimes life gives us no choice. Tessie Brunini…
In every month that has a fifth Wednesday, Families as Allies schedules a special Facebook Live event where we invite families and the partners that we work with to have…
Sheldon Smith has worked with Families as Allies since January 2016. He began with the BUDS early childhood project, where he did administrative assistant and family-partner work. His friendly and…
Families as Allies has touched the lives of many children and families over the past year. Every year our annual Community Partnership Celebration Fundraiser both honors this good work and…
We will be doing three additional focus groups for Mississippi parents and caregivers (a caregiver is someone who is raising a child who is not the child's parent - for example,…
Last Friday Judge Carlton Reeves held a status conference in the United States Department of Justice's (DOJ) lawsuit against the State of Mississippi's mental health system. We have requested a transcript…
Last week we shared with you that Families as Allies is a partner on the University of Mississippi Medical Center's CHAMP (Child Access to Mental Health and Psychiatry) Project. Primary care providers (for…
Our executive director, Joy Hogge, sat down this past week with Valery Dambreville of Child Welfare Professionals, Inc., for an online conversation about Families as Allies and its mission, along…